Rauner Special Collections Library

One of the earliest works on vampires and how to deal with them is Dom Augustin Calmet's Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, D...

One of the many delights of working with Special Collections is finding the occasional – and quite unexpected – connection between two figu...

This Fall, the freshman class will run 115 laps around Dartmouth’s 116th Homecoming bonfire (however it is also acceptable just to run 15 la...

Four hundred years ago, King James I of England commissioned a new translation of the Bible, hoping to create a single, authoritative text t...

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....