Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, November 18, 2011
Pictures of Hell
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Very few people today would read Dante's Divine Comedy as literal truth, but Renaissance commentaries, especially those that emerged fr...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Romaunt of the Rose
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This Thursday, November 17th, Stephen Nichols of the Johns Hopkins University will give a lecture, " Dartmouth's Rose Undying ,...
Friday, November 11, 2011
For Gallant and Meritorious Service
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On September 29, 1864, Samuel Augustus Duncan, Dartmouth '58, then a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Color Troops of the 4th Brigad...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
W. W. Dewey and the "Old Dartmouth Cemetery"
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In 1797, William Worthington Dewey, a local farmer, decided to begin an "accurate record" of all the "Deaths in the Vicinity ...
Friday, November 4, 2011
GOTO LINE 1
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In 1964, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz produced the first version of the programming language Dartmouth BASIC. As part of the Dartmouth Time-...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
A Triple-Headed Monster
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One of the more depressing Victorian novels you can read is George Gissing's New Grub Street . Set in London, it chronicles Victorian li...
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Friday, October 28, 2011
A Dissertation Concerning Vampires
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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...
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