Rauner Special Collections Library
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The History of Lapland
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This book is just so cool. It is the first English translation of John Scheffer's The History of Lapland (1674). The frontispiece show...
Friday, March 29, 2019
Charles to Wilkie
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For a class today we were looking at how nineteenth-century novels were serialized in popular periodicals. One of the examples we had out wa...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Twisted Travels
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Most of us who were educated in the West will recognize at least the name of Don Quixote, the titular character of Miguel Cervantes's mo...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
The Hand of Lincoln
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We had the distinct pleasure of welcoming the administrative unit from the Thayer School of Engineering to Special Collections this week. ...
Friday, March 15, 2019
Dressed to Distress
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"At football games, some Dartmouth students have been known to go barefoot and wear nothing but red war paint on their upper torsos, wh...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
"Crank Letters"
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“Five or six undergraduates on a Saturday night got to house-hopping, as they called it. Going around to houses that were having beer parti...
Friday, March 8, 2019
Sampling the She-Wolf and the Spinster
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Today is International Women's Day, which marks a great opportunity to highlight some of the exceptional women authors and artists rep...
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