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The Huntington Acquires the Archive of Gusmano Cesaretti
Tue., Feb. 25, 2025The Huntington has acquired the archive of Italian-born artist Gusmano Cesaretti, a self-taught photographer renowned for capturing significant portraits of Southern California’s Mexican American community, incisive views of Los Angeles urban space, and set images for multiple Hollywood films.
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The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints
Wed., Feb. 19, 2025Join W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah, for a discussion on shifting complexities of race relations within the Mormon church, drawing on evidence from Century of Black Mormons, a public history project.
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Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II
Wed., Feb. 19, 2025Anna Pegler-Gordon, professor at James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, uses previously overlooked FBI case files to explore the extensive everyday resistance of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Ashley Brown Wins 2025 Shapiro Book Prize
Tue., Feb. 18, 2025The Huntington has awarded the 2025 Shapiro Book Prize to Ashley Brown for the biography “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson.” The biennial prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award, honors an outstanding first scholarly monograph in American history and culture.
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Saving the World’s Loneliest Plant
Tue., Feb. 11, 2025 | Sandy MasuoCycads have withstood the test of time, surviving ravenous dinosaurs and ice ages. Today, however, habitat loss, poaching, and declining pollinator populations threaten their survival.
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A Trailblazing African American Artist and Printer
Tue., Feb. 4, 2025 | David H. MihalyGrafton Tyler Brown was one of the few African American artists and printers in the American West during the 19th century. He broke barriers as an illustrator and lithographer, a business owner, and a landscape painter.
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Enter the Multiverse of Raqib Shaw
Tue., Jan. 28, 2025 | Nayan Shah, Patricia J. YuRaqib Shaw’s painted worlds are fragile creations that strike delicate balances between hope and despair, resilience and destruction, humor and profundity.
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The Whites-Only Immigration Regime
Wed., Jan. 22, 2025Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA, gives a lecture that tracks the rise of the whites-only immigration regime and how federal authorities have yet to abolish it.