Rauner Special Collections Library

Between 1927 and 1931, the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer issued a series of illustrated poems called the Ariel Poems , named after Shakesp...

Yesterday we were giving a presentation to The Dartmouth Institute's Health Professions Educators' Summer Symposium on various plagu...

Maria Magdalena, Duchess of Tuscany, was born into the Hapsburg family. The daughter of Archduke Charles the II and niece to Maximilian II, ...

It was just a coincidence that lunchtime was approaching when I came upon a 1936 menu from the Hanover Inn within a box of documents on my d...

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...