Rauner Special Collections Library

During the late nineteenth century, a hotly debated topic among horse racing aficionados was whether all four of a horse's feet left the...

What are the first things a newly formed state does after declaring itself no longer a colony? Establish a government and pass some laws. ...

We've recently rediscovered a copy of an early printed work by of one of the most famously unprintable poets of the 17th century. John W...

We start our story today not in Rauner but looking at the first annual report of the American Bison Society, published in 1908. The frontisp...

Even though a library tends to be about books and the written word, there are always things that help to enhance or supplement a collection ...

Whether it's the rubber for the stamps used to create the text, the copper wire for the binding, or the number of copies (30) in the edi...

In 1934 Charles Scribner's Sons published F. Scott Fitzgerald's  Tender is the Night . It was hoped the novel would return Fitzgeral...