Rauner Special Collections Library

When you think of Prohibition Era rum running, images of Al Capone and gang warfare pop right to the fore. But sometimes it was a little m...

" Here boys is what they used for women in Dartmouth College plays in the days when Colby was just another college away off in Maine...

It is a fitting day to feature a very curious book in our collection. It is a copy of Jacques Levy's Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La C...

This last week, Rauner welcomed art history professor Katie Hornstein's History of Photography class for an hour-long romp through some ...

It is national poetry month, so we just put up a small display of some gems from the collection. The two jaw droppers are a manuscript poe...

When he was a child, Arthur R. Kantrowitz and his younger brother Adrian liked to build things.  Using old radio parts, they constructed an ...

We seem to be obsessing over photograph books lately. Not sure why, but here is another one! In 1938, while the Depression still raged, the ...