Rauner Special Collections Library

  We've blogged before about our amazing first City Lights edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl , published in 1956,  as well as the...

When Winnie-the-Pooh came out in 1926, the English publisher issued an inexpensive copy for mass sales while the American publisher tried t...

Two weeks ago we blogged an herbarium lovingly constructed by a 19th-century missionary. This week, we have a similar object, but one assem...

Last week, we joined archives and archivists all over the world in celebrating International Archives Day 2017 . The theme of this year’s IA...

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...