Rauner Special Collections Library

One of the most glorious books in our collections is William Bradford's Arctic Regions (London: Low, Marston, Low and Seale, 1873). It ...

MS-1310, 747217 Sarah Woodworth, wife of Ichabod Woodworth of Lebanon, North Parish, was called to the meeting house for a public admoni...

Our Kenneth Roberts Library collection consists of Roberts' personal library, including a well-thumbed and annotated cookbook. After Rob...

1816 is famous for being the year without summer. A volcano in the Dutch East Indies spread so much ash into the atmosphere that crops faile...

Sometimes a book's form and content give little indication of the life its author led. Birch Bark Poems , by Charles Fletcher Lummis, is...

In the age of the internet we forget that there once was a time when the news was not accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In those day...

It must have seemed impossible. In the early 1800s, George Baxter awed England with his innovative color prints, easily mistaken for hand pa...