Rauner Special Collections Library

The World War II years in Hanover were marked by a sense of urgency. As young men prepared to ship out and serve, the climate became one of ...

We got to Robert Fludd through Thomas Cromwell.  It doesn't make much sense at first (but neither did Fludd most of the time). Really, i...

In 1951, Popular Science featured Dartmouth students under the headline “How the Experts Build a Snow Man.” That year's Winter Carnival...

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities has inspired countless artists and intellectuals with its whimsical descriptions of imaginary cities. ...

The Super Bowl gets a lot of hype, but the first game was a kind of experiment that had poor television ratings, and didn't even sell ou...

One of the first challenges that a student new to Rauner Library must grapple with is the desire to privilege exclusively a book's conte...

The recent news about the possibility of increased travel between the United States and Cuba has coincided with a recent and relevant acquis...