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Saturday, June 30, 2018

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first printing of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometh...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Follies of the Lobster-Boy

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One of Rauner's most fascinating little collections is the t he Class of 1926 memorial collection, which was established in 1960 by th...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Webster Hall Thronged

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Doing some research for a reference question this week, we ran across a headline in The Dartmouth from April 1908 that caught our attention...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Juneteenth and the First African-American Novel

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Today is the annual celebration of Juneteenth, a mash-up of "June Ninteenth," which marks the day that two thousand Union soldie...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Death's Dominion

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We were lucky enough to acquire a kind of miraculous survival of the Great Plague: ten of the weekly death tallies issued in London during 1...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Costumes of the East

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One of our favorite genres of book at Rauner is the costume book, which is usually a collection of images that display the various forms o...
Friday, June 8, 2018

50 Years Ago...

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The Class of 1968 is back on campus now to lead the class of 2018 into Commencement. Fifty years ago this week, they were deep in their fina...
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