Verso

"Books are weapons in the war of ideas." This was the motto of the Council on Books in Wartime, a consortium of

On March 27, 1802, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Amiens, ending a decade of warfare

It has been 150 years since eastbound and westbound railroad tracks first met at Utah's Promontory Summit, the culmination of many years of planning

Kelly Fernandez, head gardener of the Herb and Shakespeare gardens at The Huntington, and her team of docent volunteers are always on the lookout for plant materials

A placid river lazily flows past verdant hills, a high mountain retreat rests beneath towering pines, and delicate arches glow in the warmth of the setting sun.

I am a digital art historian at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies American and early modern European art.

Beautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection 

Stereotyping in early modern England and its colonies deserves scrutiny in our time because stereotypes were pervasive