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Barry Menikoff, author of Narrating Scotland (2005), is Professor Emeritus at The University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

In the 19th-century debate over whether the US should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. The author sheds light on Reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith.

The Huntington's camellia garden is one of the most diverse public collections and one of only five gardens worldwide to earn the International Camellia Garden of Excellence Award from the International Camellia Society. This book documents some of the world's oldest camellia cultivars as well as 21st-century introductions of the collection.

A firsthand account by the author, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St Louis to San Francisco. Here, he describes the journey, giving details of the conveyances, the accommodations, and the dangers to which they were exposed.

Written in a encouraging, passionate tone, this delightful book provides gardening instructions for children of all ages, and is illustrated with dozens of charming line drawings and themed garden designs.

Reveals the stories behind the Huntington's best-known paintings, "The Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough and "Pinkie" by Sir Thomas Lawrence. This title includes sixteen color plates that feature "Pinkie" and "The Blue Boy" as well as other related paintings.

John James Audobon's sumptuous four-volume edition of BIRDS OF AMERICA, published between 1827 and 1838, contains 435 hand-coloured life-size prints of over a thousand individual American birds. This book is about the creation and the creator of this magnificent work.

The temporary installation of artwork by Ricky Swallow and Lesley Vance at the Huntington constitutes not only the first time the work of these two artists - husband and wife, sculptor and painter - has been displayed together, but also the first time contemporary art has been installed in the mansion of Henry E.

Explores the garden's history, from its development for the Huntington estate as a display of fashionable, cultivated taste, to its quiet deterioration and neglect during World War II, to its resurgence in the 1950s as a showcase for Japanese culture and garden arts.

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Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Huntington Art Collections that runs from September 28, 2013 to January 13, 2014.

Follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age - and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. This title considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California.

A picture book for children which includes nine popular stories such as: "The House that Jack Built", "The Diverting History of John Gilpin", "Sing a Song for Sixpence", "The Three Jovial Huntsmen", "The Farmer's Boy", "The Queen of Hearts", "The Milkmaid", "Hey Diddle Diddle", and "Baby Bunting".

Reflects the experiences of five different women, on three of the major westward routes in the middle of nineteenth century - across Panama in 1849, the California or northern route in the 1850s, and the Gila or southern trail in the post-Civil War period.

The Gutenberg Bible, which appeared about 1455, represents the invention of printing in the Western world. This title includes color reproductions of several pages and initial letters from the Bible, which details the early history of printing and the way the Gutenberg Bible was produced.

This new edition of Kate Greenaway's MOTHER GOOSE reproduces illustrations from the rare 1881 edition.

A catalog raisonne of Isaac Cruikshank's watercolors in the Huntington, the largest group of works by the artist in this medium. It illustrates 117 images that were called 'drolls' because of their comic themes and characters, along with the artist's notes and sketches on the verso of the originals.

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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) - explorer, linguist, and anthropologist - was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia and Africa. This title presents these lectures.

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