Architect David Martin discusses his book Joy Ride: An Architect’s Journey to Mexico’s Ancient and Colonial Places. A journal of his travels filled with sketches, photographs, and observations, Joy Ride celebrates the timeless sophistication of

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Jul 24th, 2017 33m 48s

Based on the acclaimed science fiction novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, a new graphic adaptation by Damian Duffy and illustrator John Jennings gives fresh form to Butler’s powerful tale of slavery, time travel, and the inexorable pull of the

Hilary Mantel: “I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”

May 11th, 2017 51m 24s

Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell was described by an eminent historian as “not biographable.” Faced with an intractable puzzle, can a novelist do better? Hilary Mantel, two-time Booker Prize–winning author of “Wolf Hall” and its sequel “Bring Up

The Art of Farming: How a Farmer Sees the Future

May 7th, 2017 1h 4m

David Mas Masumoto, organic farmer and acclaimed author of Epitaph for a Peach and Harvest Son, is joined by his wife, Marcy Masumoto, for a lively talk about life on their Central California farm. Through stories that offer a personal perspect

Remarkable New Discoveries from Hummingbird Rescue

Mar 6th, 2017 1h 9m

Terry Masear, hummingbird rehabilitator, presents a lecture about nature’s tiny “flying jewels” and the work of the dedicated volunteers of the Los Angeles Hummingbird Rescue. Since its inception in 2007, the group has rehabilitated and release

A Recipe is More than a Recipe

Mar 6th, 2017 52m 49s

Long before recipes were shared on the Internet, they were passed among friends and compiled into community cookbooks published as charity fundraisers. Drawing on The Huntington’s Anne M. Cranston American Regional and Charitable Cookbook Colle

“The Theater of Many Deeds of Blood”: The Geography of Violence in Frontier Los Angeles

Feb 8th, 2017 1h

John Mack Faragher, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale University, discusses the spatial pattern of homicide in Southern California in the 19th century. This talk is part of the Billington Lecture ser

Desert Plants and the Making of a Fine Press Book

Jan 30th, 2017 45m 3s

Printmaker and book artist Richard Wagener discusses how the visually striking plants in The Huntington’s Desert Garden have inspired his recent work. A series of his wood engravings are reproduced in a new limited edition, fine-press publicati

The Good Garden

Oct 3rd, 2016 57m 49s

Landscape architect Edmund Hollander, author of “The Good Garden,” discusses how the design process for a residential landscape is informed by the interaction of natural site ecology, architectural ecology, and human ecology.Recorded Oct. 2,

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Sep 15th, 2016 44m 8s

Karl Jacoby, professor of history at Columbia University, uses the story of the remarkable Gilded Age border crosser William Ellis to discuss the shifting relationship between the United States and Mexico in the late 19th century. This talk is

Let the People Rule

May 25th, 2016 56m 41s

Geoffrey Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, discusses his book "Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary". Using a trove of newly discovered documents, Cowan offers a glimp

The St. Francis Dam Collapse of 1928

May 20th, 2016 1h 1m

Considered the worst civil engineering failure in the history of California and the state’s second-worst disaster in terms of lives lost, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam ended the storied career of William Mulholland, the man who earlier ha

Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: Mid-Century Landscape Architecture & the Southern California Look

Apr 21st, 2016 50m 53s

Landscape architect Kelly Comras, author of the biography Ruth Shellhorn, examines Shellhorn’s legacy in a lecture and short film screening.

Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

Oct 30th, 2015 1h 12m

Amina Hassan, biographer and award-winning public radio documentarian discusses her new book, “Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist.” Miller, one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the ear

In Conversation with Liz Goldwyn

Oct 15th, 2015 43m 12s

Author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn discusses her book "Sporting Guide", a series of interlinked stories that evoke a lost world on the margins of Los Angeles society in the 1890s.

The Court and the World: The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities

Sep 24th, 2015 1h 3m

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks about the many ways in which American judges, when interpreting American law, must take ever greater account of foreign events, law and practices—the subject of his new book, "The Court and the World:

Motoring West

Aug 9th, 2015 29m 40s

Peter Blodgett,discusses his book, Motoring West: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909. Travel back in time to the the turn of the 20th century when Americans were hitting the road to explore the West by automobile. Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith F

The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing (Dibner Lecture)

Oct 30th, 2013 48m 23s

Peter Westwick discusses his new book, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (2013, Random House), co-authored with Peter Neushul. His Dibner Lecture covers the high-tech aspects of the history of surfing, including how

Raymond Chandler and the Simple Art of Murder (Haynes Foundation Lecture)

Jan 24th, 2013 51m 1s

Judith Freeman talks about her latest book “The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved” (2007). Chandler drew on many real events and people to create his iconic Los Angeles mystery novels. Freeman discusses Chandler’s real-life

Fire Season: Philip Connors and William Deverell in Conversation

Oct 13th, 2011 52m 8s

Philip Connors discusses his book Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout with William Deverell, professor of history at USC and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. The event was part of AxS Festival

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