Distinguished Fellow Lecture Series Podcast
1) Potosí, Silver, and the Coming of the Modern World
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 a...Show More
2) The New Battlefield History of the American Revolution
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...Show More
3) The United States from the Inside Out and Southside North
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...Show More
4) Physics and “Belles Lettres”: The Arts & the Sciences in the Industrial Revolution
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...Show More
Physics and “Belles Lettres”: The Arts & the Sciences in the Industrial Revolution
1:05:42 | May 17th, 2016
5) The Creative Life in 19th-Century America
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 Hawtho...Show More
6) Being Elizabethan: How Elizabethans Made Sense of Their World
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 ...Show More
7) Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation Prize? The English Conquest of Jamaica
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 for...Show More
8) Science and Sociability in the French Revolution
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 ...Show More
9) An Accursed Family: the Scottish Crisis and the Creation of the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650–1652
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...Show More
10) A Tale of Two Armies
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 Con...Show More