This Week at The H is a weekly feature here at Verso. Stop in each Monday to find out what’s happening throughout the week at The Huntington! LAST CHANCE: Today is the last day to see “Cultivating California,” the Library exhibition about the three families who helped found San Marino … Continue reading
Author Archives: Matt Stevens
The Place to Be
The second annual LitFest Pasadena takes place this Saturday, May 11, at Pasadena’s Central Park. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., you can catch readings, performances, and panel discussions from more than 75 authors, storytellers, performers, and exhibitors. The local event puts the emphasis on local, with panels on surfing … Continue reading
Bookended by a Pair of Awards
Earlier this month, Adria L. Imada won the annual Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American cultural history, Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire (Duke University Press). The awards committee noted: “Through nuanced readings of diverse bodies of evidence—interviews … Continue reading
Into the West
When David Igler first pondered writing a book about the Pacific Ocean, he admits he felt a little bit out to sea. “I was hoping to bring the Pacific into the framework of how we think about the early American West,” says Igler, associate professor of history at the University … Continue reading
Around the World in Five Conferences
When Joyce Chaplin attended a conference at The Huntington in January, she completed a rather remarkable journey that began with a visit here in November 2011. In a 14-month period, the Harvard historian presented papers at five Huntington conferences, logging about 26,000 air miles in the process, about a thousand … Continue reading
LECTURES | Better Living Through Electricity
On Monday night, April 1, The Huntington will host a panel discussion devoted to the web-based digital exhibition “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990.” That new exhibition is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. and is slated to … Continue reading
What Would Pope Gregory Do?
When the conclave of cardinals assembles to replace Pope Benedict XVI, it might look past the example of Pope Gregory XII—the last pope to resign, in 1415—to Gregory I (ca. 540–604), known to history as Gregory the Great and author of a foundational text of early Christianity in western Europe. … Continue reading
A Library of Last Resort
Henry Edwards Huntington was born on this day in 1850, which makes today Founder’s Day at The Huntington. You can mark the occasion by downloading last week’s Founder’s Day talk by David Zeidberg, the Avery Director of the Library. Zeidberg’s lecture is the comprehensive answer to one of the most … Continue reading
Be Mine, M’Lady
Bates and Anna. Matthew and Lady Mary. Lady Edith and Sir Anthony. Lord and Lady Grantham. If you are a fan of the British television series “Downton Abbey” you know that all is not fair in love. So far this season we have had a newlywed husband languishing in prison, … Continue reading
More!
For the second time in four years, The Huntington’s Library Collectors’ Council has added to the Library’s Charles Dickens holdings, acquiring a set of 15 letters by the prolific 19th-century British novelist. Back in 2010, the council purchased a set of 35 letters, adding to the more than a thousand … Continue reading