Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1937, Dartmouth was a major college football powerhouse and was invited to play Cal in the Rose Bowl on January 1st--and Dartmouth turned...

Everybody knows the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts of Christmas whose visitations cause the former miser and all arou...

Like the rest of the country, we have had school children on our minds this week. We were reminded of a batch of very sweet letters in our T...

Natural history in the nineteenth century strove to describe and classify everything in the living world. Museums were bulging at the seams ...

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Sometime during the mid-1800's, a distraught wife wrote this brief note to Albert Dewey, a mill owner in Quechee, Vermont, begging him n...

A while back we blogged about the first edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . The publisher promoted the book with the suggestion that it...