Rauner Special Collections Library

This time of year, we're getting pretty wistful for spring. As such, we've been looking at books on flowers and we have a lovely one...

From the vantage point of 2026, women’s right to vote can seem like a foregone conclusion. Yet it took women almost 150 years from the found...

Lately our Rare Book and Manuscript Metadata Librarian has been spending a portion of his time reviewing our incunable collection and, as a ...

We recently ran into something interesting in our files on the Student Army Training Corps. The SATC was a federal program implemented durin...

Feeling a bit brought down by the season? You’re not the only one. This week we’re highlighting a wry little number, currently on display as...

In addition to our current collections of phenomenal books and manuscripts, we are always collecting new amazing items that we know will be ...

When A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, it came with the subtitle "Being a ghost story of Christmas." Ghosts might not be t...