Rauner Special Collections Library

Ogilby's Aeneas You don't really think of classical characters being altered by 17th-century political turmoil, but the face ...

Farming in New Hampshire has never been an easy proposition. Although the overwhelming number of boulders that fill the fields have been a...

We were answering a reference question today out of Charles Jackson's papers and we stumbled on a sweet little moment. Jackson was fri...

The Camp Fire Girls were founded just up the road from here in Thetford, Vermont, to give girls the same opportunities their bothers had in ...

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...