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.
A Book Full of Seaweed
Sun., April 1, 2018 | Michele Currie NavakasAlgology preserves a passionate engagement with the underwater worldThe documentary Chasing Coral (2017) brings coral close. Using underwater time-lapse photography, the film chronicles the catastrophic effects of global warming on coral reefs.
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.
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...
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.
Archiving the Civil War’s Text Messages
Sat., April 1, 2017 | Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.A massive crowdsourcing project is digitizing thousands of coded Union telegramsTo gain insights into the U.S. Civil War, The Huntington launched an innovative crowdsourcing project last year to transcribe and decipher a collection of telegrams
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...