Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1900, a young man arrived at Dartmouth College carrying only one suitcase and $50 dollars. Matthew Washington Bullock, the son of slaves,...

This Friday and Saturday, we will be feting our 15th-century Brut Chronicle manuscript with a conference, From Medieval Britain to Dartmout...

In 1901, William Carroll Hill published a small volume, Dartmouth Traditions , being a compilation of stories about Dartmouth events and alu...

Most people associate books of hours with illuminated medieval manuscripts, not printed books. Throughout the first fifty years of printing,...

This curious edition printed in Lyon in 1564 reduces Ovid's Metamorphoses to a series of exquisitely executed woodcuts. The images, acc...

Shortly after Castro's rise to power, this satirical supplement to La Revista Mella was published in Havana.  Like a kind of anti-Dartm...

In the frigid early morning hours of Saturday, February 5, 1887, a Vermont Central train, the “night express,” was heading north to Montreal...