Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, March 13, 2026
A Most Weird Look
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A couple of years ago, we were lucky enough to be near the path of totality for a total solar eclipse. Upper Valley residents may have dealt...
Friday, March 6, 2026
Ticknor's View of Dartmouth
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We have been posting to this blog regularly for nearly 17 years. For a long time it was twice a week, but then we switched to once a week. S...
Friday, February 27, 2026
Sammelband Sociology
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In our opinion, sammelbands are one of the most curious books to be found in Special Collections libraries the world over. Derived from the ...
Friday, February 20, 2026
Mapping Ancient Rome
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We just acquired a stunner of a book: the 1532 edition of Marco Fabio Clavo's Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum [A Model ...
Friday, February 13, 2026
15 Minutes of Fame: Dartmouth’s Feature in a 1988 Episode of 60 Minutes, and What Was Left Out
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In the fall of 1988, famed 60 Minutes host Morley Safer 1 and his camera crew arrived in Hanover to capture a conflict that had erupted on...
Saturday, February 7, 2026
The Wonderful Winters of Old
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As students are bundling up for a chilly ‘Blizzard of Oz’ Winter Carnival this weekend, we thought we’d take a trip back through the wiza...
Monday, February 2, 2026
A Small University
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When Daniel Webster 1801 said that Dartmouth was a "small college," he wasn't kidding. These words, uttered during Webster...
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