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Pulitzer Prizes will be announced on Monday, April 18, including the categories of history, biography, and general nonfiction. While Huntington scholars have garnered this top honor on several occasions, including Daniel Walker Howe in 2008 for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.

Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter early in the morning of April 12, 1861. Two days later, Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fortification off the coast of South Carolina, but not before lowering the American flag and keeping it as a souvenir. A fragment of that flag is bound into a volume of a unique set of books in The Huntington Library.

Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.

Walt Disney's animated movie Sleeping Beauty (1959) begins with a live action shot of a spectacular gold-plated book adorned with jewels. As the narrator reads the opening lines, the camera pans in on the colorful paintings, and the viewer is soon transported to a far away land.

Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.

Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.

Here's a scandal: While the Huntington painting Penelope (Pitt), Viscountess Ligonier immortalizes a woman who indulged in salacious affairs and managed to survive a very public divorce, its real story is not about the sitter at all.