Podcasts about los angeles times distinguished fellow

James Walvin, professor emeritus at the University of York and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the widespread global ramifications of African slavery that transformed the cultural habits of millions of people.

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 historians revolutionized the study of nearly every facet of America’s founding era, they left one topic—the battlefield—to traditional historians. Until now. This talk is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded Oct. 24, 2016.

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 historians revolutionized the study of nearly every facet of America’s founding era, they left one topic—the battlefield—to traditional historians. Until now. This talk is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded Oct. 24, 2016.

Shirley Samuels, professor of English and American studies at Cornell University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, examines the relationship between pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the language that he used in famous speeches.

Shirley Samuels, professor of English and American studies at Cornell University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, examines the relationship between pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the language that he used in famous speeches.

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 and book signing. This is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington.

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 and book signing. This is part of the Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series at The Huntington.

Frederick E. Hoxie explains that over the past generation, historians have discovered many new facts about Native Americans. In this talk he examines how this new information affects our understanding of who we are as Americans and how we all fit into a single national culture. Hoxie professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington in 2013–14.

Bill Brown asks, What is American about American art? Can art change America? How might aesthetic education transform the social and economic ideals of the nation? He discusses case studies from the 1840s to the 1950s that addressed these questions. Brown is professor of American culture at the University of Chicago and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington for 2012–13.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman came to Pasadena to live in 1888. Here she wrote “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” a harrowing story of a woman’s descent into madness, fueled by her own experience. Helen Horowitz, professor of history, Smith College, and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington in 2010–11, considers Gilman’s life in Pasadena and the making of the story.

Writers Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field advocated, and practiced, free love as one element of their commitment to anarchistic politics. Sherry Smith, professor of history at Southern Methodist University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow for 2009-10, examines the interplay between what they preached and what they practiced in early 20th-century Oregon and California.

Writers Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field advocated, and practiced, free love as one element of their commitment to anarchistic politics. Sherry Smith, professor of history at Southern Methodist University and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow for 2009-10, examines the interplay between what they preached and what they practiced in early 20th-century Oregon and California.

This talk explores the relationship between the scholars who use research libraries and the millionaires who built them. Albert Hurtado is the Paul H. and Doris Eaton Travis Chair in American History at the University of Oklahoma and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington for 2007–08.

This talk explores the relationship between the scholars who use research libraries and the millionaires who built them. Albert Hurtado is the Paul H. and Doris Eaton Travis Chair in American History at the University of Oklahoma and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington for 2007–08.