Rauner Special Collections Library

The history of the best known engraving of Dartmouth College--how it came about, and the life of the artist who created it--is one of the mo...

The last few blog posts have been a bit disturbing--first a woman being flayed alive, and then poor Molly Goosey being served up for Thanksg...

To celebrate Thanksgiving this year we bring you a charmingly illustrated book from our Class of 1926 collection. Thanksgiving Day: or the F...

Jean Struys's sensational accounts of travels in the East established many of the western European myths about Persia. He took stories h...

There are seemingly few things more incongruous than the work of illustrator Edward Gorey and a magazine called the Sophisticated Traveler ...

John Wingate Weeks began his campaign in 1904 to represent Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives. A retired Army capta...

Veterans day is a day when we remember those served, as well as those who paid the ultimate price. In the end, though, it is just that: a da...