Rauner Special Collections Library

As Independence Day fast approaches, it is hard not to feel a sense of anticipation in the air. Perhaps it emerges from imminent firework d...

As we have mentioned in a previous post , Rauner Library owns an incomplete copy of James Audubon's Birds of America that previously be...

George Ticknor 1807 was a professor of languages at both Harvard University and Smith College during the 19th century and amassed a formidab...

Before Mercator, pilots used charts that showed the location of ports and coastal features and provided directions on how to navigate betwee...

We have nine sheets of the corrected galley proofs from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying along with a letter from Edith Greenburg of C...

In May 1964, the Ronettes came to Dartmouth on a package tour with Soul Sister, Carl Holmes, and King Curtis to play Green Key weekend. It w...

Two years ago, a writer for Dartbeat, the Dartmouth student newspaper's blog, posted a fascinating entry about the sinking of the Titani...