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In 1815, a surveyor named William Smith published a huge, 10-by-16-foot map of England, Wales, and part of Scotland titled A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales. Up until then, explorers had sketched fairly accurate maps

As you sit around the table this Thanksgiving, conversing with relatives or suffering through a carb coma, you may think about the mayhem of bargains, lines, and bad behavior that is to come on Black Friday.

Did you hear that The Huntington possesses an illuminated prayer book that fell from the hands of Mary Queen of Scots when she was beheaded in 1587? Or that the findings of German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt laid the groundwork for John Muir’s ideas of preservation

Loren Miller (1903-1967) was a Los Angeles-based attorney and civil rights activist who drafted most of the briefs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), which ended legal segregation in public schools.

For people today, the mention of World War I posters may conjure up charged images promoting patriotic messages: think Uncle Sam pointing forcefully in I Want You for the U.S. Army or a coquette in sailor's uniform

With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. For this installment, we look at a Hydnophytum specimen, one of the ant plants in our tropical collections.

The conference "'My Self in a Transitional State': Isherwood in California" takes place at The Huntington on November 13 and 14 in Rothenberg Hall. We asked the conference conveners—James J. Berg

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it will stage an intervention in its historic Huntington Art Gallery of works by Alex Israel, one of the most recognizable emerging artists on the contemporary art stage.