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Rescuing a Hive of Bees
Sat., Oct. 12, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling
Preserving Biodiversity One Gene at a Time
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling
News Release - Exhibition Takes a Fresh Look at 'Utopia' with New Works That Engage with The Huntington's Collections
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019
Locked in his Private Room: A Teenager's View of the Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
Wed., Oct. 9, 2019Researcher T.J. Stiles describes the last year of Custer’s life through the eyes of teenager Bertie Swett. Swett came to know Custer and his wife Libbie at Fort Abraham Lincoln and in Manhattan while America approached a historic turning point. Swett bared witness to the notorious soldier’s life as he pushed his career and fortune to the brink of disaster.
“With a sincere hand and a faithful eye”: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Science
Thu., Oct. 3, 2019Sachiko Kusukawa, professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge, explores the many ways images served early modern science, from anatomical atlases and botanical illustrations to telescopic and microscopic observations.
United by Lightning: The Transcontinental Telegraph of 1861
Wed., Oct. 2, 2019Edmund Russell, professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and the Dibner Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the motives, construction, and consequences of the completion of transcontinental telegraph in 1861.
An Artist Obscured
Wed., Oct. 2, 2019 | Lauren Rodriguez
Gardens as Ecological Theater: An 18th-Century Story
Thu., Sept. 26, 2019Eugene Wang, professor of art history at Harvard University, discusses the Qianlong Garden in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City. Built in the 1770s, the whole garden space can be seen as a five-act play.