Rauner Special Collections Library

This evening, the giant Christmas tree on the Green will be lighted to start the holiday season here in Hanover. It is a really festive even...

Feeling stuffed after your Thanksgiving dinner? Our latest digitized collection, David Brainard's Diary , may make you appreciate that o...

The fall term is almost done, except for perhaps a few final projects, and we are looking forward to the holiday season that will begin on...

This week, we had a visit from a book group hosted by Norwich Public Library that was reading and discussing Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime...

When George du Maurier's Trilby came out in 1895, it took England and the United States by storm. "Trilbymania" struck, and t...

Even though many people today see fairy tales as nursery stories, folklore has a surprising and somewhat uncanny way of proving itself rele...

A powerful man, a king in this case, lustfully looks down on a woman in her bath--a woman whom he will sexually molest. A powerful man, agai...