John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and the Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, presents an account of Potosí, the great South American silver mine and boomtown that galvanized imperial Spain i

The New Battlefield History of the American Revolution

Oct 25th, 2016 48m 48s

Woody Holton, professor of American history at the University of South Carolina and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, offers a preview of research from his forthcoming book. During the last half-century, as social hi

The United States from the Inside Out and Southside North

Oct 6th, 2016 52m 6s

Steven Hahn, professor of history at New York University and the Rogers Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, considers what the history of the United States would look like, especially for the 19th century, if we travel east and west from th

Physics and “Belles Lettres”: The Arts & the Sciences in the Industrial Revolution

May 17th, 2016 1h 5m

Jon Mee, professor of 18th-century studies at the University of York and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the network of literary and philosophical societies that sprang up in response to the transformative

The Creative Life in 19th-Century America

Apr 28th, 2016 47m 4s

Alice Fahs, professor of history at UC Irvine, discusses what we can learn from the attempts by prominent 19th-century American writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to form communi

Being Elizabethan: How Elizabethans Made Sense of Their World

Apr 7th, 2016 55m 44s

Norman Jones, professor of history at Utah State University, talks about his decades-long effort to understand how English men and women in the Elizabethan era perceived the structures, meanings, and purposes of life.This is part of the Disting

Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation Prize? The English Conquest of Jamaica

Mar 3rd, 2016 42m 38s

Carla Gardina Pestana, professor of history at UCLA, will argue for the importance of Cromwell's effort and its outcome. Oliver Cromwell got only to Jamaica despite sending a massive expeditionary force to conquer the Spanish West Indies. This

Science and Sociability in the French Revolution

Jan 14th, 2016 1h 12m

Dena Goodman, professor of history at the University of Michigan, discusses a group of young men whose passion for science guided them through the turmoil of the French Revolution and into leadership roles in the decades that followed. This is

An Accursed Family: the Scottish Crisis and the Creation of the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650–1652

Oct 16th, 2015 51m 48s

Thomas Cogswell, professor of history at UC Riverside reconstructs the polemical campaign waged in the early 1650s by John Milton and other republicans to destroy the personal and political reputation of Charles II. This is part of the Distingu

A Tale of Two Armies

May 13th, 2015 1h 6m

Joseph T. Glatthaar, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in Nineteenth-Century American History, compares the great Union and Confederate armies in the American Civil War. A

Admiral Nelson’s Women: Female Masculinity and Body Politics in the French and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Nelson’s Women: Female Masculinity and Body Politics in the French and Napoleonic Wars

Apr 30th, 2015 46m 24s

Kathleen Wilson, professor of history at Stony Brook University and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, discusses the revolutionary changes in body politics and polity that occurred in England during the late 18th century, as symbolized

“God's Wounds!” Blasphemy in the Early Modern World

Apr 9th, 2015 48m 31s

Susan Juster, professor of history at the University of Michigan and the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, discusses the changing nature of blasphemy and blasphemy prosecutions in early modern England and the North American colonies. This

Britain's Century of Revolutions Reconsidered

Mar 12th, 2015 1h 2m

Tim Harris, professor of history at Brown University and the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow, examines the causes of the English Civil War and the significance of the revolutionary upheavals in 17th-century England, Scotland, and

Why They Mattered: Not Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Dour “Puritans” but a People of Daring and Ethical Passion

Feb 12th, 2015 1h

David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor at Harvard Divinity School and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, draws upon his book A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England in this free lecture a

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