Rauner Special Collections Library

It may not be a national holiday, but today is the 300th birthday of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth’s founder and demiurge. Born on A...

Franklin Leavitt was a farmer from Lancaster, New Hampshire who supplemented his income by acting as a guide for visitors to the White Mount...

This blog began its life as a way to mark this week in U.S. history, particularly the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, and t...

It sure looks like Huck Finn, but it's not. A closer inspection of this rather slim volume of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reveal...

Early expeditions to the Arctic attempted to force their way through sea ice in hopes of finding a practical northwest trade route to the Ea...

Do you ever wonder what can happen to make a town vanish?  Lewiston, VT, started out life as a small community on the Connecticut River.  Fo...

While attempting to showcase this day of hoax and trickery, of practical joke and parody, we sadly discovered that Dartmouth historically ha...