Frontiers
Huntington Frontiers connects readers with the rich intellectual life of The Huntington, capturing in news and features the work of researchers, educators, curators, and others across a range of disciplines. It is produced semi-annually by The Huntington’s Office of Communications and Marketing.
Counting Extinction
Sun., April 1, 2018 | Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.The last observations of a small Hawaiian birdIn Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i (Yale University Press, 2018), Daniel Lewis takes readers on a 1,000-year journey as he explores the Hawaiian Islands’ beautiful birds and a variety of topics...
Scholar's Insight: A Riveting Hypothesis
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Racha KirakosianThe recess in a book's cover may have contained more than meets the eye By Racha KirakosianOne of the most pleasurable experiences one can have as a medievalist...
Welcome to the Ranch
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Usha Lee McFarlingThe Huntington's experimental demonstration garden educates and enchantsIf ever there were a secret garden, it's the Ranch Garden at The Huntington...
Lessons Learned: In the Woods With a Canoe
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | Terence YoungA historian of camping scrutinizes Frederick Jackson Turner's Encounter with WildernessBy Terence YoungCamping is one of the country's most popular pastimes...
Floriform
Sun., Oct. 1, 2017 | James GlissonDon't expect a garden variety flower from a modernist painterA rose is a rose is a rose, but what a rose can mean in different contexts is staggeringly varied. Take the red rose. A token of romantic affection, it is also the flower of the City of Pasadena and its world-famous Rose Parade.
The Perfect Wedding Gift
Sat., April 1, 2017 | Catherine HessTwo 15th-century panels from an Italian wedding chest tell a tale of passionate loveNewly married couples in 15th- and 16th-century Italy—like newlyweds today—could expect to receive a pile of wedding gifts. One of the most common gifts was a cassone, or big box...
A Passion for Cycads
Sat., April 1, 2017 | Usha Lee McFarlingSurvivors from the dinosaur age, cycads continue to captivate collectors and researchersCycads are squat, woody, and branchless. They have no flowers, just spiky leaves that shred clothes and tear skin. They grow slowly, poison livestock and sometimes people.
Robert Frost at The Huntington
Sat., April 1, 2017 | Leslie MonsourThe famous poet paid an unheralded visit to the Library in 1932 to view his manuscriptsOn Oct. 8, 1923, P. K. Foley, a well-known Boston bookseller and bibliographer, wrote a letter to Robert O. Schad, Henry E. Huntington’s assistant curator of rare books.