Rauner Special Collections Library

Published during World War II by the Council on Books in Wartime and distributed to soldiers overseas, these downsized books were made to be...

On June 26, 1872, a bearded, robust poet of moderate fame appeared before the graduating class and faculty of Dartmouth College to deliver t...

The elaborate and often arcane rules of etiquette in the nineteenth century demanded the proper use of calling cards when visiting or "...

A common practice during World War II was the dropping of surrender leaflets on military troops and civilians on both sides of the conflict....

We made a wondrous discovery right before the holiday break. In the late 1960s, Mark Lansburgh '49, donated several medieval manuscripts...

"The human system is a curious and complicated machine, wonderfully wrought by the hand of nature, composed of various organs of differ...

Enormously popular and critically maligned, the dime novel was one of the first forms of mass culture in the United States. The Western adve...