Rauner Special Collections Library

Bound in a gilded, but otherwise unassuming, contemporary calfskin binding, this little book seems much like any other until you open to the...

At last week's annual conference of the Society of Authorship, Reading & Publishing ( SHARP ), there was a panel titled "The Al...

Augustus Alexander Warren was a warrant officer with the United States Navy in the mid-1800s. He was born to a French mother and an English ...

Last week, Dick Hoefnagel, a longtime friend of the Dartmouth College Library, passed away. In his memory, today we blog one of his favori...

When the name Beethoven is mentioned, you probably think of one of his many compositions and start humming. You think about him being deaf w...

In 1897, Charles Ashbee set up the Essex House Press. He hired many of the craftsmen originally employed by William Morris at the Kelmscott ...

By 1776, Dartmouth College had been operating in Hanover for nearly six years, its student body had expanded from the 4 original students wh...