Huntington Frontiers

An intimate glimpse at a Medieval poem put to a surprising useAs a graduate student doing research in the library at The Huntington in the summer of 2002, I examined a manuscript that surprised me so much

Fanchon and Marco's big "Ideas" revolutionized the 1920s theater worldChances are you've never heard of Fanchon and Marco. But in the 1920s, millions of Americans had.

Contemplating the impact of Blue Boy's departure from EnglandThis fall, Huntington art curators Catherine Hess and Melinda McCurdy unveil Blue Boy & Co., a 179-page book highlighting the richness and diversity of The Huntington's European collection.

The Huntington serves as ground zero in a race to research, and ultimately kill, the pests that threaten Southern California's treesFour years of historic drought. Restricted water use. The Darth Vader of tree pests and assorted other destructive bugs, diseases, fungi, and root rot.

African-American Art at The HuntingtonThe Huntington continues to fill in gaps in its collecting areas, most recently by homing in on works by African-American artists.

There's more to the corpse flower than its giant bloomBehind the scenes at The Huntington, in a quiet greenhouse tucked away from public view, something big is brewing.

The Huntington's curator of photographs captures the emotional impact of the Civil WarIf you missed The Huntington's unprecedented exhibition of 200 rare Civil War photographs in 2013, you will be pleased to learn that the Huntington Library Press has just published a powerful book based on the show

How Lincoln's death helped revive the practice of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation"The President still breathes," began the dispatch sent to the press before dawn on April 15, 1865. Just hours after Abraham Lincoln had been shot

Richard W. Fox ties Lincoln's body to his words and deedsOn April 21, 1865, Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington, D.C., for Springfield, Ill. It offered northerners "a moving shrine they could approach as pilgrims"

A photographer immerses himself in The Huntington's bonsai and penjing collectionsPhotographer Stephen Hilyard does things big. In the summer of 2007, he donned a dry suit and jumped into a lake in Þingvellir (in English, Thingvellir)

When black became the new blackThe death of France's Louis XV in 1774 was good for fashion. At the time, much of Europe followed a long-established etiquette

Finding the sublime in a newly acquired pair of paintingsEighteenth-century travelers on the Grand Tour of Europe sought out Naples, Italy, not only for its museums and ancient ruins, but also for that marvel of nature