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Big Creek and the Creek Fire
Posted on Sep. 8, 2020 by William Deverell
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The catastrophic Creek Fire, burning out of control in the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Fresno, is but one of hundreds of fires ...
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Kevin Starr Lives on at The Huntington
Posted on Mar. 2, 2017 by William Deverell
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At the dedication of The Huntington’s Munger Research Center in 2004 California historian Kevin Starr (1940–2017) who died in January said “Southern California contemplates itself defines itself...
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Naughty Los Angeles in the 1890s
Posted on Nov. 2, 2015 by William Deverell
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Liz Goldwyn doesn’t shy away from much. Author, fashion icon, filmmaker, scion of Hollywood legends, Goldwyn is a force to be reckoned with...
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The History of Los Angeles as a Transnational Region
Posted on Jun. 13, 2011 by William Deverell
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Franciscan Missionaries and Medics in Early California
Posted on Jun. 3, 2011 by William Deverell
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Our American West
Posted on Mar. 31, 2011 by William Deverell
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Solidarity with the Mount Wilson Observatory
Sep. 21, 2020 by Kevin Durkin
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In 1904, more than a half-century before the creation of NASA, George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), a solar astronomer and astrophysicist, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory ...
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Hear and Now
Sep. 16, 2020 by Giovana Romano Sanchez
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Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world ...
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Introducing New Fellows in an Unprecedented Time
Sep. 10, 2020 by Steve Hindle
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In a normal year, nearly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine would be conducting academic research ...
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