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Welcoming New Research Fellows
Mon., June 27, 2016Summer is a busy time for The Huntington’s research program. As the academic year draws to a close, it’s time for a changing of the guard. The fellowship selection process for the 2016–17 program is complete
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Greene & Greene in Context
Thu., June 23, 2016 | Diana W. ThompsonSome people may remember the exquisite furniture in The Huntington's permanent exhibition about Arts and Crafts masters Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. The space was just reinstalled and the take-home message is clear
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Press Release - Huntington Announces Launch of Crowdsourcing Project to Transcribe, Decode U.S. Civil War Telegrams
Wed., June 22, 2016In a move to gain new insights into the U.S. Civil War, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today the public launch of an innovative crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decipher a collection of nearly 16,000 Civil War telegrams
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Decoding the Civil War
Tue., June 21, 2016 | Kevin DurkinToday The Huntington announces the launch of a crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decode U.S. Civil War telegrams from its collection. What follows is the text of the press release about the project's launch.
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Found in Translation
Thu., June 16, 2016 | Diana W. ThompsonWhat does the 20th-century Arts and Crafts architecture of Americans Charles and Henry Greene have to do with the 17th-century Katsura Imperial Villa outside of Kyoto, Japan? For admirers of the work of Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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Society and Solitude in Concord
Tue., June 14, 2016 | Linda ChiavaroliIn the middle of the 19th century, the small town of Concord, Mass., had an outsized reputation as New England's intellectual center. This was in large part thanks to the fame of four writers who called the place home
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Mentoring in the Afterlife
Fri., June 10, 2016 | Ayana JamiesonWhen it came to finding the confidence to publish her writing, science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) could count on herself for a pep talk. "I shall be a bestselling writer," she wrote in one of the notebooks contained in her papers.
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Explorations in the History of the Rose in China
Thu., June 9, 2016Guoliang Wang, the author of “Old Roses of China,” surveys the development of the rose in China, from the Song dynasty (960–1279) to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and beyond. Wang is a professor of horticulture with the Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Agriculture and a lecturer at both Nanjing University and Nanjing Agricultural University. His research has focused particularly on wild roses and ancient horticultural varieties.