Rauner Special Collections Library

While researching early pharmaceuticals and medicines for a class, we came across a pamphlet bound in creased yellow wallpaper . Inside, it ...

While digging around in the book collections for materials to support the English Department's "1850s America" class this term...

Most of the time we work with old things here in Rauner. Sometimes it can get a little eerie, because the people who made so many of our boo...

The German copyright for  Mein Kampf (My Struggle) , Adolf Hitler's autobiography and master plan, has finally expired, and German sch...

In 1911, Winston Spencer Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote a secret memorandum entitled Military Aspects of the Continental...

Typographers tend to be a humorless lot when it comes to matters of design, but they love to have fun with the ostentatious excesses of thei...

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...