Rauner Special Collections Library

When traveling somewhere you do not speak the local language, what are the phrases you would prioritize learning? You can find countless phr...

In 1944, Dr. Agnes Bartlett left Hanover to serve as a medical officer at the Poston Internment Camp in southwestern Arizona, one of the lar...

We just had one of those "discovery" moments. We put that in quotes because the only reason we could make the discovery was becaus...

In 1876, Americans celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in grand fashion. For six months, millions of visitors flock...

One of the best perks about being a staff member at Rauner is seeing all the amazing things that come into the collections all the time. And...

When Dr . John Snow had the handles to London's Soho Broad Street public water pump removed in 1854 in an attempt to curb a cholera o...

This edition of L'Office de la Vierge Marie (1619), or The Office of the Virgin Mary , was written by Pierre Coton, a French Jesuit who ...