Posted on Thu., Feb. 16, 2017 by Kate Lain

Even if you missed the chance last week to participate in #ColorOurCollections, a coloring extravaganza organized by The New York Academy of Medicine Library, there's still time to join in the fun.

Posted on Mon., Feb. 13, 2017 by Huntington Staff

Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.

Posted on Wed., Feb. 8, 2017 by Diana W. Thompson

The eastern side of the North Vista contains some of The Huntington's oldest and most precious cultivars of camellia. William Hertrich, Henry Huntington's superintendent of the gardens from 1903 to 1948, had a passion for the flowering plant

Posted on Mon., Jan. 30, 2017 by Jennifer A. Watts

At daybreak on a steamy morning last August, my husband dropped me off at the Kalaupapa trailhead on the north shore of Molokai and waved goodbye.

Posted on Wed., Jan. 25, 2017 by Caroline Wigginton and Abram Van Engen

In 1746, Jonathan Edwards—the famous preacher, theologian, and philosopher of the Great Awakening—tried to sort through the wide variety of experiences that doubt and faith can generate. Some experiences should be trusted as signs of grace, he argued; others, less so.

Posted on Wed., Jan. 18, 2017 by Ian Haywood

The Huntington possesses a trove of images from the golden age of British caricature—most notably by artists Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Isaac Cruikshank (1764–1811). It also owns some gems by Robert Seymour (1798–1836), an illustrator whose fame grew

Posted on Wed., Jan. 11, 2017 by Laura Forsberg

The next time you walk through the faux-bois trellises along the western edge of The Huntington's Rose Garden, see if you can find a small door, carved in miniature at the base of a tree trunk, with a pathway to it resembling a fallen leaf.

Posted on Thu., Jan. 5, 2017 by Linda Chiavaroli

What happens when you take a single sheet of paper and apply the ancient principles of origami coupled with computer-generated folding patterns? In the hands of physicist and origami master Robert J. Lang

Posted on Sun., Jan. 1, 2017 by Melissa Lo

We denizens of the 21st century have numerous ways to learn about our planet: seismographs, submersibles, and airborne snow observatories cover every continent. Some of the most remote Earth science instruments

Posted on Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 by Kevin Durkin

As 2016 winds to a close, we invite you to take another look at a dozen stories plucked from the more than 80 we've published this past year on Verso.