Rauner Special Collections Library

We've blogged before about Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia , and we've also blogged before about the word "abrac...

Ugh, what to do when you are on the search for Sir John Franklin and stuck in the ice... for the entire arctic winter... waiting... getting ...

In Special Collections, we sometimes get a bit obsessive about "aura,"that mystical energy that surrounds authentic historical ar...

While searching the stacks for materials related to regional agriculture, we discovered a University of Chicago PhD dissertation among the...

On November 7th, 1908, Dartmouth squared off against Princeton at the famed Polo Grounds for "the only big football game that New Yorke...

Just recently, our processing specialist undertook the daunting task of reprocessing the Bookplates Collection at Rauner Library. The coll...

It was the middle of the American Revolution. Thomas Chittenden, "Governor and Commander in Chief" of the recently formed "St...