Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, November 16, 2018
Inconceivable!
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Even though he wrote many popular screenplays and books, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the Presidents Men , William ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
"Splendid" Lillard
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Dartmouth's recent football victory over Harvard, after several decades of agonizing defeats, brought to mind another time long ago wh...
Friday, November 9, 2018
Encyclopedic Enlightenment
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Denis Diderot's Enyclopédie, ou dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers , a mammoth undertaking that was launched ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
First Frost
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“This is the very first I ever had published …” reads Robert Frost’s words penned atop this newspaper. On November 8, 1894, The Independent ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Going Back to the Well
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We have blogged before about Nicolas Jenson's obsession with the perfect page and his devotion to an austere typography, so we don'...
Friday, October 26, 2018
Translating Tamil
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In June of 1819, a young man named Levi Spaulding embarked on a trip to South Asia that would ultimately lead him to the island country of...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Doctor Franklin and Lord Dartmouth
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This week, we welcomed to Special Collections a visiting delegation of Rotarians from the United Kingdom. First editions of works by Auste...
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