Rauner Special Collections Library

Folks in Canaan, New Hampshire, were living it up at the start of 1915. It is a contrast to the somber mood of war torn Europe that we just ...

One hundred years ago this Christmas, families all over Europe were finally experiencing a time of peace after several long years of war. ...

Laban Heath was a New England engraver who, by the mid 1860s, had discovered a way to stay relevant. As an engraver, he had been involved ...

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...