Videos and Recorded Programs

Johanna Teske, Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow, will highlight new discoveries about exoplanets including how their composition is "inherited" from their host star.

"The sun is but a morning star." Walden's famous last line points eastward to the sunrise; but Henry David Thoreau also wrote of the west, the sunset, and day's end.

Andrew Wetzel discusses how theoretical astrophysics is now revealing how galaxies are formed, using the world's most powerful supercomputers to simulate this complex process.

John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, presents an account of Potosí, the great South American silver mine and boomtown that galvanized imperial Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, fueled the rise of cap

The Huntington has the only known recording of Joseph H. Hazelton's eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Aric Allen documents the story of this strange artifact.

Tony Piro discusses how scientists are combining observations with theoretical modeling to unravel the mysteries of supernovae.

Drawing on The Huntington's Anne M. Cranston American Regional and Charitable Cookbook Collection, food writer Patric Kuh discusses what these shared recipes can tell us, not just about food and community but about the changes that shaped the way Americans cook.

Originally conceived by art dealer George T. Marsh as an exotic setting in which to sell curiosities, the building that in 1912 became The Huntington's Japanese House is a beautiful remnant of a transformational moment in design history.

Composer Huang Ruo, the 2017 Cheng Family Visiting Artist at The Huntington, is joined by the acclaimed kun opera singer Qian Yi for an evening of discussion and performance. Together they explore the Chinese kun opera tradition and how Huang uses the form in his contemporary compositions.

Landscape historian Nancy Carol Carter examines the horticultural legacy of Kate Sessions (1857–1940), the pioneering nursery owner and garden designer who left an indelible mark on the Southern California landscape.

Stephen Orgel, J. E. Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, discusses books and their marketing throughout history, emphasizing the ways in which books are embedded in history, and how literary interpretation is at least partly a form of archaeology.

Sandy Rower, President of the Calder Foundation, discusses the process and creation of Alexander Calder's last signed stabile. The stabile was lent to The Huntington in 2015.