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Press Release - Anne Rothenberg Elected to Succeed Stewart R. Smith as Chair of The Huntington’s Board of Trustees

Tue., June 7, 2016

Anne Rothenberg, longtime Huntington supporter and a trustee since 2005, has been elected chair of the Board, effective July 1, 2016. She will be the first woman to lead the five-member governing board responsible for The Huntington’s financial sustainability and overarching direction.

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LISTEN Japanese Tea Ceremony

Fri., June 3, 2016

Visiting journalist Corinne DeWitt heads to the Seifu-an tea house in the Japanese Garden, where Robert Hori, gardens cultural curator, performs a traditional Japanese tea ceremony and discusses the intricacies of this venerable art form.

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LISTEN>> Japanese Tea Ceremony

Fri., June 3, 2016 | Corinne DeWitt

In a suite of audio posts, visiting journalist Corinne DeWitt heads into our three collecting areas—Library, Art, and Botanical—and meets up with staff to explore facets of the vast collections that are the core of The Huntington. First up: Botanical.

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Maps that Scholars (and Goonies) Treasure

Tue., May 31, 2016 | Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

In the early 1980s, Mary Robertson, then chief curator of manuscripts, had an unusual meeting with a film production designer. Robertson was used to talking with people about the wonders and mysteries within The Huntington's vast and renowned collections.

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Empowering the Earl of Leicester

Thu., May 26, 2016 | Norman Jones

The Huntington possesses an astonishing Elizabethan-era illuminated manuscript, dating from 1567, entitled Heroica Eulogia. Containing a series of vignettes of earls and kings, it is an exquisite volume that combines paintings, coats of arms, Latin poems

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Let the People Rule

Wed., May 25, 2016

Geoffrey Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, discusses his book “Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary.”

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Japanese Gardens of Manzanar: Past, Present, and Future

Tue., May 24, 2016

Jeffery Burton, archaeologist at the Manzanar National Historic Site, examines traces of the gardens, which were lost and abandoned when the site was closed.

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Advancing the Humanities

Mon., May 23, 2016 | Kevin Durkin

The Huntington and the University of California, Riverside, have selected the first two fellows for the highly competitive Huntington-UC Program for the Advancement of the Humanities, a partnership designed to boost the humanities at public universities.

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Videos and Recorded Programs

Japanese Gardens of Manzanar: Past, Present, and Future

Tue., May 24, 2016

Jeffery Burton, archaeologist at the Manzanar National Historic Site, examines traces of the gardens, which were lost and abandoned when the site was closed.

Verso

Advancing the Humanities

Mon., May 23, 2016 | Kevin Durkin