In his address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln evoked the memory of 1776. Few, if any, in the audience had been alive at the time of the American Revolution, but Lincoln knew the power of that Glorious Cause
I waited 49 years to see this. When I was 26, one of my best friends from high school introduced me to orchids. While visiting Gary at his parents’ home one day in 1964, I saw some unusual flowers blooming in the oak trees
Early in the Civil War, abolitionist Frederick Douglass urged Abraham Lincoln to allow black men to serve in the Union Army. "Men in earnest don't fight with one hand, when they might fight with two," he wrote in a controversial article in September 1861.
As you enter the Library's Main Hall and walk straight ahead, one of the first things you'll see is a familiar treasure underneath a Plexiglas sign reading "A Landmark in Printing." The Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1455) anchors one of 12 sections in "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library,"
Exactly 141 years ago today, a determined band of women in Rochester, N.Y., broke the law by voting in the presidential election of 1872. One of them was noted suffrage advocate Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906).
Next Saturday, Nov. 9, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library" will open in the Main Hall of the Library, a new installation of The Huntington's Library treasures. Anchoring 12 sections will be key works
Sutter's Mill. Forty-niners panning for gold. Lottery of the Golden Ingot? If you thought you knew everything about the California Gold Rush, think again.
In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. Its celebrity rests on many factors, not least of which is the superb quality of the painting
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.
In times past, nature delivered challenges in an orderly manner. Every few years we'd hear about a remarkable new pest or disease that threatened whole populations of plants throughout Southern California.