Rauner Special Collections Library

H. L. Mencken rarely spared anyone's feelings in his writing during his life, so it was with great anticipation that his autobiographica...

Actually, there wasn't a 13th Olympiad since the year was 1944 and World War II was still in progress. Instead of holding the Games in L...

We recently acquired a small, but rich collection of letters by H.L Mencken. While Ambrose Bierce is the 19th-century's greatest curmud...

We just acquired a very curious little book. Die Glasschmelzkunst  (Vienna: Schultz, 1769) is a manual for 18th-century do-it-yourself chemi...

This week we finished re-processing the papers of Nelson Pierce Brown, Dartmouth class of 1899. The papers document Brown's career as a ...

"DANCE, v. i.: To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor’s wife or daughter. There are ma...

In 1905, during his now famous stint in the patent office, Albert Einstein published four articles in the scientific journal Annalen der Phy...