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Recorded Programs: Aug. 26–Sept. 23, 2020
Wed., Oct. 7, 2020 | Kevin DurkinHome to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of programs
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News Release - Botanical Director James P. Folsom to Retire
Tue., Sept. 29, 2020The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that after 36 years of extraordinary leadership, James P. Folsom, the Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, will retire at the end of the year.
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News Release - Huntington Acquires Newly Discovered John Singleton Copley Painting Among Other Works That "Bridge the Atlantic"
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a newly discovered painting by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) depicting celebrated 18th-century British actress Mary Robinson, as well as works by British artists Alice Mary Chambers
Videos and Recorded Programs
Confederate Infamy
Wed., Sept. 23, 2020Robert Bonner, professor of history at Dartmouth College, probes the deep history of the images, words, and ships that cast odium on the slaveholders’ rebellion of the 1860s. This lecture is a Rogers Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in Nineteenth-Century American History.
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Solidarity with the Mount Wilson Observatory
Mon., Sept. 21, 2020 | Kevin DurkinIn 1904, more than a half-century before the creation of NASA, George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), a solar astronomer and astrophysicist, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory
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The Early Modern Global Caribbean: Virtual Conference
Fri., Sept. 18, 2020The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This conference explores the regional, Atlantic, and World approaches to the Caribbean, and what they each mean for thinking about the transformations within and beyond the Caribbean between ca. 1500 and 1800.
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Hear and Now
Wed., Sept. 16, 2020 | George SanchezHear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world.
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Introducing New Fellows in an Unprecedented Time
Thu., Sept. 10, 2020In a normal year, nearly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine would be conducting academic research