American History

To mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, The Huntington brought together a distinguished group of scholars t... Read more

Christopher Brown, professor of history at Columbia University, explores the relationship between two themes in American... Read more

Woody Holton, professor of American history at the University of South Carolina and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished ... Read more

Shirley Samuels, professor of English and American studies at Cornell University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished... Read more

David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor at Harvard Divinity School and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, dr... Read more

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, discusses the important rol... Read more

Mary Fissell, professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, discusses Aristotle’s Masterpiece. First... Read more

Ari Kelman, winner of the Bancroft Prize for his book "A Misplaced Massacre", discusses the politics of memory surroundi... Read more

Gordon H. Chang, professor of history at Stanford University and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North Am... Read more

Andrew O’Shaughnessy, vice president of Monticello and professor of history at the University of Virginia, dispels the i... Read more

Author Ronald C. White Jr. discusses his latest book, "A. Lincoln: A Biography."

Neil Foley of the Southern Methodist University, discusses how this demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, an... Read more

Susan Juster, professor of history at the University of Michigan and the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, discuss... Read more

Religion and violence converged in southern Utah in 1857 when a Mormon militia attacked a wagon train bound for Californ... Read more

Karl Jacoby, professor of history at Columbia University, uses the story of the remarkable Gilded Age border crosser Wil... Read more

Peter Blodgett,discusses his book, Motoring West: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909. Travel back in time to the the turn of... Read more

Clive Holmes, emeritus fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will provide a context for the 1692 determination by the Pu... Read more

Alice Fahs, professor of history at UC Irvine, discusses what we can learn from the attempts by prominent 19th-century A... Read more

Curator Olga Tsapina explores themes from the current exhibition “A Clash of Empires: The Seven Years’ War and British A... Read more

John Mack Faragher, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale University, discusses... Read more