As a formerly enslaved woman and secretly practicing Jew, Esperanza Rodríguez demonstrated a tenacity in life matched by her refusal to be forgotten in the archives.
The federal government dismantled an exhibit about the Black freedom struggle in Philadelphia. The city fought back with an unlikely weapon: specialized academic research.
Scholars discuss the music-filled spaces of the Spanish Americas and the resources in The Huntington’s collections that help reconstruct the soundscapes of the past.