Watch, Read, Listen

What’s a schrank and why do we have one? Elee Wood, Fielding Curator/Educator of Early American Art explains.

Alexander Ji, Hubble Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, leads a short tour of the early history of our Universe, offering intriguing glimpses of an epoch known as Cosmic Dawn, when the first stars and galaxies were born.

Acclaimed historian Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ideas of property and power between 1848 and the present in this Avery Lecture.

Join authors Bryan Mealer and Joshua Wheeler in a discussion about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and New Mexico.

Karen Lawrence, president of The Huntington and a James Joyce scholar, delivers the annual Founder’s Day Lecture on the subject of Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Lawrence’s lecture examines what makes Joyce one of the greatest writers, and how he created one of the most original novels by stealing from everybody else.