Rauner Special Collections Library

Preparing for a class this week, we came across a tantalizing manuscript that we know little about: a Sufi devotional text created in the mi...

In January of 1776, in the midst of the Revolutionary War, Eleazar Wheelock, the founder and first president of Dartmouth College wrote to C...

If we wanted to we could assemble an amazing cabinet of curiosities. Here is a favorite example. This is the entire text of the Koran execut...

Before the novels and the Pulitzer, Edith Wharton made her mark by writing about garden design, interior decoration and what constituted goo...

Thinking of dressing up like a pirate this Halloween? If you want the classic look popularized in the 19th century, Howard Pyle is the plac...

Prang's inexpensive color lithography technique revolutionized advertising and made color greeting cards commonplace. His work appeared...

Bindings 69 In high fashion there's often a disconnect between the world of the practical and that of "just because I can....