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The Past and Future of The Huntington's Asian Gardens
Thu., Oct. 29, 2020
For this presentation, James Folsom, the Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, recounts the physical and intellectual origins of Liu Fang Yuan, reminding us of the many people, ideas, and activities that brought this garden and endeavor to its curre
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What Is a Second Edition? A Pictorial Introduction to Bibliographical Terms
Wed., Oct. 21, 2020
In this webinar, Huntington Curator of Rare Books Stephen Tabor explains how printing technology developed from the hand-press period to the early 20th century, shows how to spot different typesettings and impressions, and explores how basic bibliographical terms have been used variously by book
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The Past in the Present: America’s Founding and Us
Sat., Oct. 17, 2020
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the nation's premier authorities on the Founding era, discusses how Americans today deal with problematic historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, in the inaugural lecture for the
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The Huntington Library at One Hundred and One: Eleven Million Items and Still Counting
Fri., Oct. 16, 2020
Huntington curators share stories about some of the Library's most remarkable and surprising acquisitions. This program is presented by Rare Books LA.
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Waves of Calamity: Race, Water, and Power in the Evolution of Slavery's Memory
Wed., Oct. 14, 2020
Dr. Sowande' Mustakeem, Associate Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St.
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Fragrant Rhythms: The Seasons of Liu Fang Yuan
Sun., Oct. 11, 2020
Tang Qingnian 唐慶年, the 2019 Cheng Family Visiting Artist at The Huntington, screens the video artwork that has been the focus of his yearlong residency. A conversation with the artist follows a virtual screening of his new video.
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The Pleasures of Chinese Gardens
Thu., Oct. 8, 2020
Phillip E. Bloom, June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies, examines a selection of gardens from Song-dynasty (960–1279) China that explicitly thematized both the sensual and intellectual pleasures of gardening.
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Confederate Infamy
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020
Robert Bonner, professor of history at Dartmouth College, probes the deep history of the images, words, and ships that cast odium on the slaveholders' rebellion of the 1860s. This lecture is a Rogers Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Nineteenth-Century American History.
Conference
The Early Modern Global Caribbean: Virtual Conference
Fri., Sept. 18, 2020
The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century.
Video
The Blue Boy Returns
Wed., Sept. 9, 2020
One of the most famous works at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, has been restored and reinstalled in the Thornton Portrait Gallery.
Video
Hdoc: Tigers in the Greenhouse
Fri., Sept. 4, 2020
In the summer of 1999, The Huntington was the focus of world-wide attention when it exhibited the first Amorphophallus titanum ever to bloom in California. That first bloom started our cultivation of this strange plant.
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Curatorial Dialogues: Black Ship Scrolls and Mary Queen of Scots’ Prayer Book
Tue., Sept. 1, 2020
Two remarkable—and remarkably different—manuscripts from the Library's collections are the focus of this presentation and conversation with Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, and Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History.