Rauner Special Collections Library

What to do, what to do? How does a nobleman spend his time in 1611?  We just acquired George Turbervile's The Book of Falconrie or Hawki...

One of our favorite maps in the collection is woefully incomplete. "The General Chart Showing the Track of H. M. Ships Hecla & Grip...

1929 Winter Carnival Queen and Court "Beauty and Charm to Be the Basis In Picking 1923 Carnival Queen" reads the front page h...

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men begins with thirty-one photos. The most famous one being there, to your left. And the first words are these: ...

"The Brain is the material organ of all the Intellectual and Moral manifestations. Of the nature of the mind , or soul itself, but lit...

This week marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , perhaps the most beloved novel in the English language. We ...

Sometimes a person is so inextricably linked to a specific event or time that it can be a little jarring when you find evidence of them in ...