Rauner Special Collections Library

The 1917 Commencement was a far different affair than what we will celebrate this year. One hundred years ago, the United States had just en...

At a glance, this letter might seem like an off-putting mess of illegible scrawl, but you’d have to forgive the author; by the time he wrote...

We don't have much to say about this item, except we can't believe how pretty it is. It has been kicking around in the collections f...

We have a lot of books and manuscripts that are remarkable survivals. How they managed to make it through time and space and land safely in ...

In his 1657 Lettres Provinciales , French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal quipped: “I would have written a shorter letter, but I...

When Dartmouth was a young institution and still situated in a "wilderness" without easy access to Boston, New York, or even Leban...

We've recently acquired an interesting text that was authored by an equally interesting individual. John Beaumont was an English phys...