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Historian Victoria Johnson discusses the life of David Hosack, the attending physician at the Hamilton-Burr duel and founder of the nation's first public botanical garden, today the site of Rockefeller Center.

"Books are weapons in the war of ideas." This was the motto of the Council on Books in Wartime, a consortium of

The Browns of California: A Conversation with Governor Jerry Brown and Miriam Pawel, moderated by William Deverell. The program is presented by the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West.

This interdisciplinary conference illuminates the movement of writers, artists, scientists, and cultural goods between Paris and London during the fourteen months of peace ushered in by the Treaty of Amiens, from March 1802 through May 1803–the first break in hostilities after a decade of Revolut

On March 27, 1802, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Amiens, ending a decade of warfare

A special installation of a new work by visual artist Tang Qingnian 唐慶年 will to go on display in The Huntington's Chinese Garden on June 22, continuing through Sept. 23.

Peter Moore, writer and lecturer at the University of Oxford, takes us back to the mid-18th century to the story of how a humble coal collier from a small port in northern England came to define an entire age.

It has been 150 years since eastbound and westbound railroad tracks first met at Utah's Promontory Summit, the culmination of many years of planning

Andrea Wulf, the New York Times bestselling author, discusses her new illustrated book, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt—her second work about the intrepid explorer and naturalist.

Kelly Fernandez, head gardener of the Herb and Shakespeare gardens at The Huntington, and her team of docent volunteers are always on the lookout for plant materials

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Beautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection