Rauner Special Collections Library

Roses are the perennially favorite flower for sending as gifts.  But what are you really saying when you send someone a dozen roses?  Accord...

Watercolor original Maurice Sendak, the author of wildly funny and darkly tragic children's books, died this morning.  Sendak never ...

As Derby Day approaches, we thought it might be fun to travel back in time and across the pond to look at 19th-century engravings of the or...

May Day has been celebrated as a springtime holiday for centuries, its origins stretching back to a Roman festival of the flower and fertili...

Henry Fielding is best known for his picaresque novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones , but he also dabbled in the social issues his day. The...

Robert Frost received a lot of mail in his lifetime – we have more than 18 linear feet of it at Rauner – from his family, his friends, and o...

The Grete Herball We tend to think of herbals today as handy guide books for identifying the wild flowers growing in our backyards and w...