Rauner Special Collections Library

This state song of Kentucky is performed at the start of the annual Kentucky Derby.  But, do you know what it is you are singing?  “My Old K...

Patronage is complicated. It's especially complicated when you're a member of a Mexican communist artists' collective but you ...

We made a cool connection this week of two seemingly unrelated pieces that speak to each other. Naturally, we have a first edition of Thorea...

Last week libraries and the press were celebrating Shakespeare to mark the 400th anniversary of his death. It was hard to miss: Dartmouth ma...

Here at Rauner we've recently acquired a wonderful little manuscript from the late seventeenth century that fits nicely with one of ...

"A View of Industry of the Beavers of Canada in making Dams to stop the Course of a Rivulet..." Today, beavers are a symbol o...

Bondar's Simplified Russian Method sounds like a tame linguistic instruction manual. And it is. But Kenneth Roberts (1890-1972), a repor...