Rauner Special Collections Library

Imagine starting to read a novel and not finishing it for 19 months. We are not slow readers, but we have tried the enlightening exercise of...

Most of us have, at some point or another, encountered the stunning and terrible images of Civil War battlefields created by Mathew Brady. W...

If you perceive of the body as a microcosm of all of creation, you had better pay attention to the universe when you are treating a patient....

For the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Singer Manufacturing Company produced a set of souvenir cards featuring photographs that wer...

If someone handed you the first Bible printed in America, you might be surprised to find that it was written not in English, but in Massachu...

In 1977, Patrick Murphy was a police sergeant in the city of Cottage Grove, Oregon when he was hired to coordinate security for the producti...

Before their arrival in Hanover to meet in person and begin their Dartmouth careers, many members of the class of 2015 undoubtedly spent the...