Videos and Recorded Programs
Videos about The Huntington and previously recorded lectures, programs, and conferences.
Shapiro Lecture: Democracy and the Declaration of Across 250 Years
Thu., June 25, 2026On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Harvard scholar Danielle Allen explores how the Declaration’s promise of political equality informs her teaching, advocacy, democracy and civics education work. Following her lecture, Allen joins Susan Juster, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, to discuss the historical significance and continued relevance of this founding document today. This special program is part of THIS LAND...
Libraries as Communities of Desire
Wed., March 25, 2026
United Queendom: Adapting the Tudors through SIX and Historical Collections
Thu., Feb. 26, 2026
Poetic Education and the Practice of Freedom
Wed., Feb. 18, 2026Sonya Posmentier, associate professor of English at New York University, invites audience members to consider Civil Rights Movement activism as instances of both civic and poetic education.
We often think of learning to read poetry as something that happens through classroom lectures and textbooks. Instead, a parallel pedagogy was unfolding during the Mississippi summer project of 1964. In this lecture, Posmentier offers a...
Jane Austen’s Alchemy: Cosmetic Artifice in Austen’s 'Persuasion'
Wed., Feb. 4, 2026Join Helen Thompson, Northwestern University Professor of English and The Huntington’s Dibner Distinguished Fellow in the History of Science & Technology, for a lecture on Jane Austen’s commentary on cosmetics.
How does the history of science help us interpret Jane Austen? How do Austen’s marriage plots, balls, and carriage rides relate to the domain of flasks, distillation apparatus, and laboratory techniques? This talk explores...
