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. forests into built environments and painted landscapes.

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.

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. This lecture highlights The Huntington’s newly acquired “Portrait of José Antonio Caballero” (1807) and delves into Goya’s masterful portrayal of society.

Contemporary voices in the exhibition “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis” bring forward questions of environmental history to the present. This conversation covers topics such as land extraction, human influence on plants, environmental injustice, immigration, photographic technologies, and reparative histories.