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The Huntington’s new exhibition balances difficult histories with the powerful ideals of the United States.

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. 

Asian American family archives not only tell personal stories—they narrate American history.

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.

Grafton 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.

Raqib Shaw’s painted worlds are fragile creations that strike delicate balances between hope and despair, resilience and destruction, humor and profundity.