Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, March 11, 2016
Channelling Downton Abbey
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The doors of Downton Abbey are now closed forever. And if you, dear readers, are of a like mind to the present writer, you may be feeling a...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
J'Accuse...!
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We just acquired an original issue of L'Aurore from January 13, 1898: that is the issue with what must be one of the most famous headli...
Friday, March 4, 2016
The Rise and Fall of the "Queen of Snows"
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Long before Dartmouth opened its doors to female students, coeds from up and down the East Coast flocked annually to the little village of H...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Elixir Proprietatis
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The market is flooded with medical self-help books: there is a cure for whatever ails you, be it a medication, a mind/body connection, or an...
Friday, February 26, 2016
Sawdust Men
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We have all been recipients of a certain type of e-mail, usually from someone claiming to be the heir to a sizable fortune or the representa...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Antarctica in My Mind
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Ike Taylor In 1955, Dr. Isaac “Ike” Taylor, a then professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, husband...
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Light and Shadows in the Thirties
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The boys sit in rows, their knobby knees emerging from beneath their shorts as they wait further instructions. This photograph from the 1930...
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