Videos and Recorded Programs

Susan Scott Parrish, professor at the University of Michigan and R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities at the Huntington Library, leads a lecture on the role that Black artisans and artists played in the transformation of eastern U.S.

Join W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah, for a discussion on shifting complexities of race relations within the Mormon church, drawing on evidence from Century of Black Mormons, a public history project.

Anna Pegler-Gordon, professor at James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, uses previously overlooked FBI case files to explore the extensive everyday resistance of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA, gives a lecture that tracks the rise of the whites-only immigration regime and how federal authorities have yet to abolish it.

Join Frederick Ilchman, chair of the Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as he explores Francisco Goya’s extraordinary achievements in portraiture.

Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, discusses the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.

Charles Elachi, the former director of NASA and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked with Huntington President Karen Lawrence about the importance of daring to take risks, environmental stewardship, and the mutually enriching interactions among the arts, humanities, and sciences.

Contemporary voices in the exhibition "Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis" bring forward questions of environmental history to the present.

Artist, designer, and UCLA professor Rebeca Méndez discusses her work Any-Instant-Whatever (2020), which is featured in “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis

Notable speakers from around the world cover diverse topics including succulents of South Africa, Madagascar, and Taiwan, the history of Agaves in the Southwestern United States, an enduring scholarly legacy, and a new campaign against the illegal plant trade.

Huntington Exchange Fellowship partners discuss the archives and collections available to prospective applicants and the application process.

Kevin Kwan, author of the New York Times bestseller “Crazy Rich Asians,” speaks about his new book, “Lies and Weddings: A Novel,” with Christina Nielsen, director of The Huntington’s Art Museum.