Rauner Special Collections Library

Started in 1895 by President William Jewett Tucker, Dartmouth Night was originally a recognition of accomplishments by alumni of the college...

Art, science, misogyny, or all three? Whatever the verdict, there is something undeniably shocking and ghoulish about the "Flayed Angel...

With Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are back in the news, it seemed like a good time to revisit The Morton E. Wise Collection o...

One of the most familiar Halloween characters is that of Frankenstein's monster. The popular conception of the monster has changed over ...

Thanks to a generous donation three years ago, we have in Rauner Library a mammoth sixteenth-century antiphonal (a manuscript book containin...

A few weeks ago, two German ships sailed from Vladivostok to Rotterdam via the Northwest Passage -- a trip envisioned for centuries but onl...

This week we were fortunate to acquire an illuminated Vulgate Bible manuscript produced in Paris ca 1230-1240.  Portable, single-volume Bibl...