Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1964, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz produced the first version of the programming language Dartmouth BASIC. As part of the Dartmouth Time-...

One of the more depressing Victorian novels you can read is George Gissing's New Grub Street . Set in London, it chronicles Victorian li...

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...