Rauner Special Collections Library

French professor and scientist Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) dabbled in many areas, among them anatomy, medicine, botany, and zoology. We...

Many people dream of a hand-delivered official summons from the Queen for a private appointment. Sounds pretty exciting, but each of the ten...

Multiculturalism was one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in highe...

We're all terrifically glad that spring is here for real, and so we would like to share a lovely book that celebrates the signs of the s...

One of the great joys of working at Rauner is the pleasure of unexpected discoveries. You're looking into a person or event when you stu...

When the second edition of The American Gazetteer came out in London in 1762, it was a pretty quiet event. There was nothing really new, ju...

One day in France in 1905, a tiny tragedy occurred. A small fly, attracted to a delicious pool of water, got too close to the surface, fell ...