Writing the Rails
A new book by historian Richard White, is smashingly researched, cleverly written, and shrewdly argued all the way through. The book, 12 years in the making, is a powerful, smart, even angry book about politics, greed, corruption, money, and corporate arrogance, and the America formed out of them after the Civil War.
At the Base of It
In the past year, Huntington staff and conservators have been busy examining and restoring outdoor sculpture on the grounds. While visitors may have spotted the scaffolding surrounding a pair of bronzes in front of one of the entrances of the Library Exhibition Hall, few are likely aware of the rich histories behind those works.
