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Notes from the Elizabethan Catholic Underground
Posted on Nov. 6, 2019 by Earle Havens and Mark Rankin
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What happens to a religious culture once it is no longer allowed to exist? Where might we look to find the material remnants of a religious community that was gradually suppressed ...
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The Power of Touch
Apr. 10, 2017 by Jennifer A.
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One afternoon in the Library’s archive, I found a battered and scuffed photograph at...
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Telling Her Stories
Apr. 6, 2017 by Kevin Durkin
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The Huntington is launching the first major exhibition on the life and work of award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), whose
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West of Walden
Apr. 3, 2017 by Laura Dassow
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“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place him in the...
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Women Making Art
Mar. 30, 2017
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In 2016, The Huntington launched /five, a five-year contemporary arts...
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Autism Awareness at The Huntington
Mar. 27, 2017 by Linda Chiavaroli
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Children with autism react to sensory stimuli in very different ways. Some children on the autism spectrum are overly sensitive, while others are just the opposite. The Huntington offers a range of environments...
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Illustrating Poverty and Prisons
Mar. 22, 2017 by Courtney Skipton
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In 19th-century Britain the mere fact of being poor could land you in prison—debtors’ prison that is. The history of British prisons and how artists and architects documented the social political...
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An Ingeniously Printed Book of Songs
Mar. 16, 2017 by Andrew R.
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Examining a real book up close can tell us things that a microfilmed or black-and-white online image of the object doesn’t show. Scholars often discover interesting information by inspecting a book’s...
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Bill and Ned’s Excellent Adventures
Mar. 13, 2017 by Fuson Wang
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I’ve been tracking two people in the archives of the Huntington Library whose careers reveal surprising parallels One is William Wordsworth, the Romantic-era Lake District poet who made a career of...
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#5WomenArtists in the American Collections
Mar. 8, 2017 by Diana W. Thompson
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The history of art is peppered with tales of women artists who struggled to gain the same recognition as men To shine a light on women’s artistic bounty, the
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Kevin Starr Lives on at The Huntington
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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Instagram Takeover with James Fishburne
Feb. 27, 2017 by Kate Lain
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Last Thursday, we let art historian James Fishburne—guest curator of “A History of Whiskers: Facial...
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Two Gifts from Master Bonsai Artists
Feb. 23, 2017 by Ted Matson
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One of the most iconic images of California is the coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) With its rugged trunk, twisting branches, and broad canopy, it adds both power and grace to our native landscape...
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Frederick Douglass, Celebrity
Feb. 20, 2017 by Olga Tsapina
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By the time of his death on Feb. 20, 1895, Frederick Douglass had become one of the most celebrated personalities in the United States. Born a slave in Maryland around 1818, he escaped to New York in...
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Still Time to Color Our Collections
Feb. 16, 2017 by Kate Lain
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Even if you missed the chance last week to participate in #ColorOurCollections, a coloring extravaganza organized by The New York Academy...
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Recent Lectures: Jan. 9–Feb. 8, 2017
Feb. 13, 2017
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Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections...
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Caring for Camellias
Feb. 8, 2017 by Diana W. Thompson
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The eastern side of the North Vista contains some of The Huntington’s oldest and most precious cultivars of camellia. William...
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