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Learning Real Life Solutions to Civic Problems

Wed., June 7, 2017 | Diana W. Thompson

Who will be the civic leaders of tomorrow and guide the decisions Los Angeles makes about infrastructure, transportation, homelessness, and other major issues? It may just be some of the high school juniors involved in the Los Angeles Service Academy (LASA)

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Video - Teaching 16-year-olds How to Run Los Angeles

Thu., June 1, 2017

The Los Angeles Service Academy provides an intensive introduction to the infrastructure and institutions of greater Los Angeles for high school juniors. The Huntington documented LASA’s investigation of the Los Angeles River and the Port of Los Angeles.

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Railroad Confidential

Wed., May 31, 2017 | Suzanne Oatey

Patent papers. Drawings of railcars. Engineering notes. Photographs of trains and machine shops. These were the kinds of materials I expected to encounter as I began organizing the personal papers of William Riley McKeen Jr. (1869–1946), a mechanical engineer

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Literary Ties That Bind

Wed., May 24, 2017 | Gayle Richardson

Imagine my surprise when I read the following words in the acknowledgment section of Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence, Artemis Cooper's 2016 biography of the late English novelist.

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Press Release - Rare, Important George Tooker Painting and a Neo-Renaissance Portrait Join The Huntington's Collections

Mon., May 22, 2017

At its annual meeting this spring, the Art Collectors’ Council of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens voted to acquire a major painting by George Tooker (1920-2011), exemplar of the American “Magic Realist” group who was best known for capturing the angst of alienated urban dwellers

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Telling Their Stories

Wed., May 17, 2017

As acting president of The Huntington, I am having the great pleasure of immersing myself in the wide-ranging activities that take place in this extraordinary institution. Our exhibitions program is chief among them, as it showcases both our research and educational missions.

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Carnegie Lecture Series: How We See Inside a Star with Sound

Mon., May 15, 2017

Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, discusses how the technique of astroseismology has revolutionized scientists’ view of the internal workings of stars.

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Fictive Histories/Historical Fictions

Fri., May 12, 2017

This interdisciplinary conference takes the recent popularity of the historical novel as a starting point to explore the relationship between history and fiction. The plenary speaker, Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel (“Wolf Hall”), will appear in conversation with Mary Robertson, former Huntington chief curator of British historical manuscripts.