Rauner Special Collections Library

"Notwithstanding promises given by Pvt CB Henry yesterday he has since as acknowledged to me tampered with seal thongs if not other foo...

We have a small, sobering collection of material related to the May 4, 1912, Woman Suffrage Parade in New York City. Sobering at first becau...

On page 86 of the second volume of Prinicipia Mathematica , Whitehead and Russell provide the final steps of their proof that 1+1 does indee...

Copernicus first published his explanation of the heliocentric universe in 1543, the year of his death, but he had been circulating the idea...

A lot of fine press books are a bit too precious. A beloved poem or short story by a favorite author hand set and lovingly printed on hand-m...

In the face of our ever-growing obsession with youth, it is good to know that the quest we are on is not new. The study of longevity is an o...

The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne is a black comedy first published in 1889.  The novel relates the ...