Lecture
Golden: How California Made America
Wed., March 13, 2019
Acclaimed historian Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ideas of property and power between 1848 and the present in this Avery Lecture.
Botanical
Japanese Heritage House
Wed., March 13, 2019 | Linda Chiavaroli
In February, The Huntington announced that it had acquired a 320-year-old Magistrate's House from Marugame in Japan's Kagawa Prefecture.
Lecture
Busted: Brash New Stories from Texas and New Mexico
Thu., March 7, 2019
Join authors Bryan Mealer and Joshua Wheeler in a discussion about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and New Mexico.
History of Science
Huntington and Caltech Launch New Research Institute
Wed., March 6, 2019 | Kevin Durkin
At a time when humanities programs are being slashed from college and university budgets, The Huntington and Caltech have joined forces to launch a new research institute
Video
Founder's Day Lecture - James Joyce, or: How Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Steal
Thu., Feb. 28, 2019
Karen Lawrence, president of The Huntington and a James Joyce scholar, delivers the annual Founder's Day Lecture on the subject of Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Library
Historian Carter G. Woodson
Wed., Feb. 27, 2019 | Amy Miller
Known today as the "Father of Black History," Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) was one of the first Black historians to begin writing about black culture and experience
Art
Partnership with Enrique Martínez Celaya
Wed., Feb. 20, 2019 | Linda Chiavaroli
Enrique Martínez Celaya (b. 1964) began his formal training in art at the age of 12 as an apprentice to a painter, but it was not until many years later
Lecture
A Whimsical Picture with a Grim Message: The Inshoku yōjō kagami and the Imagination of the Body in Early Modern Japan
Tue., Feb. 19, 2019
Shigehisa Kuriyama, professor of cultural history at Harvard University, discusses the Inshoku yōjō kagami (Rules of Dietary Life), a Japanese woodblock print produced around 1850.
Lecture
Mei Ling in China City
Sun., Feb. 17, 2019
Author Icy Smith and illustrator Gayle Garner Roski discuss their book Mei Ling in China City, based on a true story set in Los Angeles during World War II.
Conference
Symposium - From the Mountains to the Garden: The Domestication of Garden Plants in China
Sat., Feb. 16, 2019
This symposium investigates the history of garden plant domestication in China, focusing on such topics as horticultural techniques, the origins and distribution of important species, and the knowledge gained from literary records to DNA analysis.
Library
Won’t You Be My Valentine?
Wed., Feb. 13, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling
The modern valentine is inextricably linked to romance—candle-lit dinners, a dozen red roses, and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. But the long, complex, and fascinating history of valentine cards shows that they have a vastly different origin.
Lecture
The Entrepreneurial Frontier: The West and American Innovation
Wed., Feb. 13, 2019
William Deverell, professor of history at USC, explores the regional dimensions of American entrepreneurialism; what special features or challenges found in the American West helped drive entrepreneurs and stimulate original thinking, and how and why did the West inhibit breakthroughs or pioneer