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

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

Videos and Recorded Programs

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.”

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.

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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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Printed News and Royal Proclamations

Wed., May 18, 2016 | Chris Kyle, Jason Peacey

The highways and byways of early modern England carried travelers transporting news of the day. Royal messengers jostled with post-boys, merchants, booksellers, and balladeers. Judges rode their circuits

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Press Release - Huntington Builds Early 20th Century British Art Collection with Three New Paintings

Tue., May 17, 2016

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired three early 20th-century British paintings associated with the legendary Bloomsbury Group and the influential Slade School of Art in London. The institution also has acquired an 18th-century Italian marble table-top sculpture.

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

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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.

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