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Remembering John Svenson
Mon., May 9, 2016 | Thea PageYou don't forget meeting a man like John Svenson. I got a brief opportunity in 2011 when he came to The Huntington for a photo shoot in the galleries housing the exhibition "The House that Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985"
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Robbery and Rats in 17th-Century Jamaica
Thu., May 5, 2016 | Carla PestanaArchival research involves thousands of tiny discoveries, while writing history requires putting those fragments together into a coherent whole. The process, often tedious, can occasionally be exhilarating.
Videos and Recorded Programs
Exoplanets
Mon., May 2, 2016Astronomer Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, tells the story of exoplanets to date, and outlines the progress being made in the search for life elsewhere in our galaxy. This event is part of the Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series.
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Mementos of Downton
Mon., May 2, 2016 | Diana W. ThompsonIf you're one of the millions of people who watched the British period drama "Downton Abbey," you might be craving a juicy story about a lord or lady right about now. "Downton" led viewers on a rollercoaster ride as the titled Crawley family
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Thomas Pennant’s Literary Appeal
Thu., April 28, 2016 | Melissa BailesAsked to name the most famous European naturalists of the 18th century, most scholars would probably choose Sweden's Carl Linnaeus and France's Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. One figure often overshadowed by these contemporaries
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Flight Path
Mon., April 25, 2016 | Peter LunenfeldAs part of my project "City on the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Beyond the Screen," I've been researching the aerospace industry in Southern California. I've been looking at its impact on everything from revolutions in the shape of surfboards to high-tech art movements
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The Millard Sheets We Didn’t Know
Sun., April 24, 2016 | Thea PageThe Huntington is the new home of a residential mural by Millard SheetsFor many of us who grew up in Southern California, Millard Sheets' mid-20th century public murals are among the indelible images of our childhoods.
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What Good is History?
Thu., April 21, 2016 | Kevin DurkinHow important is historical literacy in today's world, where popular culture focuses on the here and now and the milestone events in our nation's past often get short shrift? Two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians recently weighed in on that question