Watch, Read, Listen

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired an extensive and extraordinarily rare collection of Civil War telegraph messages, including a number of coded communiqués between Abraham Lincoln and officers of the Union Army.

Long before dragons "frolicked in the autumn mist" or terrorized the young wizards of Hogwarts, the mythical creatures were the subject of legend across millennia, throughout numerous cultures and continents.

When Abraham Lincoln completed his Second Inaugural Address in the waning days of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass remarked that "the address sounded more like a sermon than a state paper."

Google "Whistler's Mother" and you'll get 504,000 results. But even famous painters had a "before" period. For James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), it was when he was allowed to crash at the London home of his half sister and brother-in-law before his career took off.

In the upcoming celebrations marking the Year of the Dragon, it will be tempting to focus all of your attention on the spectacle of the crowd-pleasing dragon dancers. This Sunday, The Huntington hosts a Chinese Cultural Arts Celebration

Today is Jack London's birthday, and what better way to celebrate than to board a ship to see some of the sites that the famous writer explored during his many adventures around the world. The ship in question, the Star of India, is not leaving its dock

It's not often that you come across an opportunity to have a hand in creating manuscript collections for The Huntington, but the Annenberg Community Beach House of Santa Monica has just the ticket.

With the temperature in the 80s, you might be pondering whether to come to The Huntington this weekend or head straight to the beach instead. If you come to the Library's West Hall, you'll be able to catch the exhibition "Blue Sky Metropolis" before it closes on Jan. 9