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The Huntington Reunites Rare 15th-Century Print with Gutenberg Bible

Tue., March 4, 2025
The Huntington has acquired the exceptionally rare 15th-century devotional print “Christ on the Mount of Olives,” reuniting it with the institution’s prized Gutenberg Bible.
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Nenette Luarca-Shoaf Named The Huntington’s Director of Education and Public Engagement

Tue., March 4, 2025
A seasoned museum educator and interdisciplinary scholar, Luarca-Shoaf brings extensive leadership experience in education program development and community engagement. She begins her new role on March 31.
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Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940

Wed., Feb. 26, 2025

Susan Scott Parrish, professor at the University of Michigan and R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities at the Huntington Library, leads a lecture on the role that Black artisans and artists played in the transformation of eastern U.S. forests into built environments and painted landscapes.

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The Huntington Acquires the Archive of Gusmano Cesaretti

Tue., Feb. 25, 2025
The Huntington has acquired the archive of Italian-born artist Gusmano Cesaretti, a self-taught photographer renowned for capturing significant portraits of Southern California’s Mexican American community, incisive views of Los Angeles urban space, and set images for multiple Hollywood films.
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The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints

Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Join W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah, for a discussion on shifting complexities of race relations within the Mormon church, drawing on evidence from Century of Black Mormons, a public history project.

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Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II

Wed., Feb. 19, 2025

Anna Pegler-Gordon, professor at James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, uses previously overlooked FBI case files to explore the extensive everyday resistance of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Ashley Brown Wins 2025 Shapiro Book Prize

Tue., Feb. 18, 2025
The Huntington has awarded the 2025 Shapiro Book Prize to Ashley Brown for the biography “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson.” The biennial prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award, honors an outstanding first scholarly monograph in American history and culture.
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Saving the World’s Loneliest Plant

Tue., Feb. 11, 2025 | Sandy Masuo
Cycads have withstood the test of time, surviving ravenous dinosaurs and ice ages. Today, however, habitat loss, poaching, and declining pollinator populations threaten their survival.