Watch, Read, Listen

It's not often that you go to an academic conference and a concert breaks out, but that's what happened in April when scholars, musicians, and writers gathered at USC for "This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles."

Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.

Forget the tigers; it is all about the tigrinums. During a visit of Huntington staff and volunteers to the San Diego Zoo in May, the zoo's Janette Gerrity, senior orchid specialist, and Michael Bostwick, curator of horticulture, donated three Paphiopedilum tigrinum plants

Change is in the air here at the blog, and we couldn't be more excited. In the next few weeks or so, we will be relaunching with a brand new name and a brand new look (complete with an option to sign up for email updates!

If the Independence Day holiday has put you in the spirit to celebrate all things American this week, be sure to stop by the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art to see our newest acquisition.

One hundred fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln signed into law the act that set in motion the development of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States. "Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840–1880," The Huntington's current major exhibition curated by Peter J. Blodgett

When the halls of academe begin to empty for the summer, the corridors of The Huntington start filling up. University and college faculty members make up a large percentage of the Library's researchers, and when school lets out in June they put away their syllabi

The current exhibition "Visions of Empire: The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840–1880" tells the story of the extraordinary achievement and implications of the first transcontinental railroad.