Rauner Special Collections Library

Green goggles and their box When Dorothy and her friends reach the Emerald City of Oz, they're each given a set of green spectacles....

You see what you are looking for. Last week we wrote about William Bradford's Arctic Regions . On the same trip Bradford enjoyed on boar...

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...