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News, stories, features, videos and podcasts by The Huntington.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution

Fri., Jan. 13, 2017

Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the American Revolution, two themes that are usually treated separately.

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Fairy Hunting at The Huntington

Wed., Jan. 11, 2017 | Laura Forsberg

The next time you walk through the faux-bois trellises along the western edge of The Huntington's Rose Garden, see if you can find a small door, carved in miniature at the base of a tree trunk, with a pathway to it resembling a fallen leaf.

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Folded Wonders

Thu., Jan. 5, 2017 | Linda Chiavaroli

What happens when you take a single sheet of paper and apply the ancient principles of origami coupled with computer-generated folding patterns? In the hands of physicist and origami master Robert J. Lang

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Knowing the Earth, Then and Now

Sun., Jan. 1, 2017 | Melissa Lo

We denizens of the 21st century have numerous ways to learn about our planet: seismographs, submersibles, and airborne snow observatories cover every continent. Some of the most remote Earth science instruments

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Some of Our Favorite Things

Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 | Kevin Durkin

As 2016 winds to a close, we invite you to take another look at a dozen stories plucked from the more than 80 we've published this past year on Verso.

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Recent Lectures: Nov. 22–Dec. 13, 2016

Thu., Dec. 22, 2016 | Huntington Staff

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. Featured are audio recordings of five recent lectures and conversations.

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Finding Harmony in Battle

Mon., Dec. 19, 2016 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

I wrote my first serious history paper in 7th grade on the Battle of Hastings—the epic scene in 1066 when Duke William II of Normandy invaded England, defeating the Saxon King Harold. After the battle, England was ruled by a foreign king, court, and legal system.

Videos and Recorded Programs

Panel Discussion: Aerospace in Southern California

Fri., Dec. 16, 2016

The history of the aerospace industry in Southern California and its intersections with contemporary culture are the focus of this panel discussion, presented in conjunction with the exhibition of NASA’s Orbit Pavilion. Panelists are Peter Westwick, aerospace historian; William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; and Daniel Lewis, senior curator of the history of science and technology at The Huntington.

Watch, Read, Listen

News, stories, features, videos and podcasts by The Huntington.

Videos and Recorded Programs

The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution

Fri., Jan. 13, 2017

Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the American Revolution, two themes that are usually treated separately.

Verso