Golden: How California Made America
Acclaimed historian Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ...
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The Huntington’s early American historical collections are important resources for the study of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, the drafting of the Constitution, and the Civil War. Among the holdings are hundreds of autograph letters written by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, as well as the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. The Huntington can also claim the largest collection of autograph manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln west of Illinois. In conferences, seminars, and lectures, curators and visiting scholars discuss their subjects in depth.
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873
Benjamin Madley, associate professor of history at UCLA, discusses the near-annihilation and survival of California's indigenous population under Unit...
The Lady and George Washington
Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor at Boston College Law School, discusses the responses of George Washington and Benjamin Rush to Eliza Harriot O'...
Anton Roman: San Francisco’s Pioneering Bookseller & Publisher
John Crichton, proprietor of the Brick Row Book Shop in San Francisco, shares the story of pioneering entrepreneur Anton Roman (1828–1903), who came t...
A Mormon Diarist in California, 1850–1858
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor of History at Harvard University, shares stories f...
“The Theater of Many Deeds of Blood”: The Geography of Violence in Frontier Los Angeles
John Mack Faragher, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale University, discusses the spatial pattern of homici...
PBS’s “Mercy Street” and Medical Histories of the Civil War
The Huntington presents a fascinating conversation about the practice of medicine during the U.S. Civil War and its dramatization in the popular PBS s...
The New Battlefield History of the American Revolution
Woody Holton, professor of American history at the University of South Carolina and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, offe...
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution
Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between two themes in American history that are usually trea...
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby, professor of history at Columbia University, uses the story of the remarkable Gilded Age border crosser William Ellis to discuss the shif...