Rauner Special Collections Library

On June 6, 1944, Clinton Gardner, Class of 1944, found himself digging a foxhole on Omaha Beach as part of the D-Day invasion of German occu...

Rupert Brooke was born in 1887 in the English Midlands town of Rugby, where his father was a master at Rugby School. He is chiefly remembere...

Tucked into one of our copies of Oscar Wilde's The Sphinx (London: Bodley Head, 1894) is a fragment of a Wilde poem in his hand and a r...

We love it when our books speak to each other. In 1722, Daniel DeFoe published his Journal of the Plague Year (London: E. Nutt, 1722). In i...

Nowadays when Dartmouth students hear the name Hopkins, they think of the "Hop," the campus performing arts center and home to chi...

Joseph McCarthy preached the perils of Communism's insidious reach into American's institutions to garner immense political power an...

We only have a handful of Confederate imprints, but two of them from Mobile, Alabama, are tactile windows into the past. Mobile Bay was unde...