Lecture
Distinguished Fellow Lecture: A Farmer's Nation
Wed., May 20, 2020
Christopher Clark, professor of history at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, explores how conflicts in agriculture over possession of land and slavery in 19th-century United States shaped the nation.
Video
Hdoc: The Photographer Versus the Spanish Inquisition
Mon., May 18, 2020
Lodewyk Bendikson was a Huntington bibliographer who became a pioneer in forensic photography.
Video
Huntington Incunabula in the Digital Era - Zoom Lecture
Wed., May 13, 2020
Join Huntington staff members Stephen Tabor (Curator of Rare Books), Joel Klein (Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences) and Holly Mendenhall (Digital Projects Manager) for a discussion on incunabula in The Huntington's collections.
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Papers of the Chinese American Family Featured in the Book “On Gold Mountain” by Lisa See
Wed., May 13, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of Gilbert, Florence, and Leslee See Leong, members of two of the earliest and most prominent Chinese American families in Los Angeles
History of The Huntington
The Year Was 1970
Wed., May 13, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
The Huntington's bimonthly newsletter has been in print for more than a half-century.
Art
"The Last Gleanings" of Jules Breton
Wed., May 6, 2020 | Catherine Hess
The orange glow of the setting sun washes over the low-lying clouds and almost matches the rosy cheeks of the two young women in the foreground
Botanical
The Loneliest Gardeners
Mon., April 27, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
Almost every garden has some common requirements: healthy soil, sunlight, irrigation, regular maintenance. But there are those who will tell you that a rose garden needs something more
Cookbook Collection
A Real Fake: The Shakespeare Forgeries of William Henry Ireland
Wed., April 22, 2020 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.
The term "fake news" now features prominently in our cultural lexicon. While the nuances are unspoken, we tend to assume that fake news is the opposite of real news
News
News Release - The Huntington Acquires the Papers of Dana Gioia, Former California Poet Laureate and Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts
Mon., April 20, 2020
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired the papers of Dana Gioia, an internationally acclaimed poet and writer who served as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
Video
Huntington 101 - Online Series
Mon., April 20, 2020
Join longtime Huntington staff member Randy Shulman for a three-part online class on The Huntington's origins, history, and renaissance as well as the background of the dramatic changes over the past 25 years.
Video
Hdoc: Growing Up in Downtown Los Angeles During the 1880s
Thu., April 16, 2020
In 1964 an audio recording was made by a member of one of the early pioneer families of Los Angeles. In the recording, Belle Buford Thom Collins recalled growing up in 1880s Los Angeles.
Library
The Chinese in the Huntington Archives
Wed., April 8, 2020 | Linda Chiavaroli
To refute the long-held assertion that the Chinese who labored in California's Gold Rush were all indentured servants, Mae Ngai delved deep into The Huntington's collections.