Rauner Special Collections Library

Burns night is upon us--when all good Scots toast the great Bard and recite "To a Haggis" before plunging a knife into the "G...

The Jack-O'-Lantern is Dartmouth's long running humor magazine. First issued in March 1909, the magazine's alumni include notab...

In March 1954 something rather extraordinary happened at Dartmouth. The undergraduate council, led by future Dartmouth President David McLau...

Imagine setting the type for James Joyce's Ulysses .... There is one 43-page run of text that consists of a only six paragraph breaks an...

On May 15th, 1872, Charles Edwin Hall, Class of 1870, petitioned President Asa Dodge Smith for mercy. At the end of the winter term in 1870,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has become a classic in American literature. It is taught in classes from high school to graduat...

This past year we were able to acquire a spectacular edition of La Fontaine's Fables Choisies . Published in Paris between 1755 and 1759...