Rauner Special Collections Library

We are always blogging about the really cool things you can find in Rauner. Usually, once things come here, they stay, but today we focus on...

Mileage stamps When the United States entered World War II in 1942, the American economy shifted to a rationing system administered by...

Wess Jolley, our Records Manager, is retiring later this month. He was interim director of Special Collections for about a year. During that...

On May 5, 1916, the German Navy ordered a submarine from the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, the most important construction wharf in...

Spilled beer (brown), now dried In the world of Special Collections, legends of strange items occasionally drift through the office -- b...

When you think “town records,” you may think of nothing more than mundane city information and tax records. But delving into 19th-century Ha...

The phrase, Special Relationship has come to describe the “exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military and hist...