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During the holiday season, adding some Christmas color around the house often means a quick trip to the garden center to grab a couple of red poinsettias. The foil-wrapped pots full of holiday cheer

Today, a visit to The Huntington might seem incomplete without a stop at the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery to see the latest temporary exhibition. On view now is "Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting," which features the Huntington masterpiece

Before Nelson Mandela was president of South Africa, he was a prisoner for 27 years, most of them served on the infamous Robben Island. During that incarceration, he was one of 34 prisoners who shared a copy of The Alexander Text of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Most people are familiar with the activities of a public library, those vital institutions that lend books, videos, music, and more to visitors. But what goes on in a library that isn't open to the public?

"Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting" is a jewel of an exhibition that is about to get even more lustrous.

A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes, also known as the Bay Psalm Book, the first complete book printed in English in the British North American colonies, will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 26.

What is your connection to California's missions? Did they inspire the style of house you live in? Do they symbolize steadfast faith? Do they conjure up an idyllic early California yielding bountiful produce from a smog-free landscape?

In his address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln evoked the memory of 1776. Few, if any, in the audience had been alive at the time of the American Revolution, but Lincoln knew the power of that Glorious Cause