Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1655, 13 years after the death of Galileo Galilei, the first edition of his complete works was issued, Opere di Galileo Galilei (Bologna:...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an Irish-born, American sculptor, was arguably the finest American sculptor of his time and a founding member of the...

Judy Garland, the iconic singer and entertainer, playing pool in a frat basement at Dartmouth?? Who knew?? Well, the Alpha Theta scrapbook i...

Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), distinguished humanist and legal scholar, launched a new genre, the emblem book, that combined classical epigr...

The first snow sculpture, 1925 Winter Carnival, the brainchild of Fred Harris, 1911, founder of the Dartmouth College Outing Club, began...

Propaganda played a major role in the spread of the Reformation. While the leaders of the Reformation were members of the clergy, and were u...

On July 17, 1890, Andrew Warden, a farmer in the Hanover area, took on a hired hand who called himself Frank Almy.  Almy was actually a con...