Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, May 23, 2025
Dolphins, octopi, and bishop fish
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French professor and scientist Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) dabbled in many areas, among them anatomy, medicine, botany, and zoology. We...
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Um, I have a lot going on that week...
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Many people dream of a hand-delivered official summons from the Queen for a private appointment. Sounds pretty exciting, but each of the ten...
Friday, May 9, 2025
Multiculturalism and Curriculum Reform at Dartmouth
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Multiculturalism was one of the hottest cultural flashpoints in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in highe...
Friday, May 2, 2025
To Those Who See
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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...
Friday, April 18, 2025
Mitten: It's a Verb Too!
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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...
Friday, April 11, 2025
Oh, the Glory of it All!
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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...
Friday, March 28, 2025
Flypaper
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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 ...
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