Rauner Special Collections Library

In July 1864, a group of wealthy women and one gentleman set off on an excursion "to rusticate a few weeks among the mountains." T...

This Fourth of July, we celebrate the 241st Independence Day of the United States of America. However, despite the traditional association ...

  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...