Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1775, while the British colonists in America were in the midst of struggling to secure independence from Great Britain, English travel ...

It's no secret that medical schools in the nineteenth century often had to resort to grave robbing to supply their anatomy labs. Dartmou...

When Elbridge West Merrill returned to Dartmouth College on January 1, 1865, he was looking forward to a good year. He acknowledged that “th...

What is it about these birch bark items in our collections that keeps us blogging them? First, a student blogged our copy of Red Man's R...

This week at Rauner Library, we hosted a high school class that was studying the history of Spain. That gave us an opportunity to explor...

Less than a year after Peter Pan 's debut in London, the play came to Broadway starring Maude Adams in the title role. She was a spectac...

If you live in the Americas, there is a good chance that your country celebrated Columbus Day this past Monday. In the United States, the ...