Watch, Read, Listen

The monumental Portage Falls on the Genesee (ca. 1839) by the 19th-century English American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is at once beautiful and sublime, depicting the overwhelming scale and power of nature in a spectacular region of upstate New York.

Devoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of 10 books on literature by women. The following excerpt comes from Looser’s most recent book, “Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës.”

In September 1758, the 62-year-old Lt. Col. Conrad Weiser (1696–1760), a veteran Indian interpreter, recorded a speech delivered by a man whose name he rendered as Ackowano Thio, or Ackowanothio.

Huntington curators Dr. Linde B. Lehtinen and Li Wei Yang discuss and highlight the Library's African American, Asian American, Indigenous, and LGBTQ collections. Moderated by Dr. Natalia Molina, Interim, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research.

William Shakespeare remained the most produced playwright in the world in 2022, but will he maintain that status by 2050? While major research libraries continue to build their collections around their Shakespearean holdings, the purpose of the research library is in flux.

Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François-de-Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil is the second masterpiece purchased through an Ahmanson Foundation gift.

Most guests who visit the botanical gardens at The Huntington appreciate their beauty, but there is much more to them than meets the eye. Our living plant collection is both regionally and globally diverse. Thousands of the species in our care are not found in any other botanical garden.

On Sept. 2, 1859, Lucy E. Nuttall died in Nevada County, California, of complications following an abortion. Her untimely death provides a window through which we can view a place and time when abortion access was highly limited.

One indicator of a healthy garden is a diversity of invertebrate life, from soil microbes to insects. With its botanical bounty and limited use of chemical controls in landscape maintenance, The Huntington’s grounds are an urban oasis for wildlife, including an incredible array of spineless wonders.

The Huntington is an apt place for a conference on race, disability, and eugenics in the United States.

Moderated by Natalia Molina, interim director of research at The Huntington, Huntington curators Clay Stalls and Peter Blodgett, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (UCSB) discuss the Library's extensive Hispanic collection of manuscripts, rare books and other printed materials, maps, and photographs.

In 1865, the El Nuevo Mundo newspaper of San Francisco invited its readers to join in toasting Mexico’s heroes and roasting its imperialist enemies by printing “brindis,” or toasts, performed by women of the Zaragoza Club of Los Angeles and the Patriotic Club of Mexico of Virginia City, Nevada.