Rauner Special Collections Library

Winter Carnival is this weekend. We have plenty of snow this year thanks to last week's storm, so the winter games should be festive and...

Did you know that ketchup used to be a fish-based sauce? Originating centuries before in southern China, British traders developed a taste f...

Walter Y. L. Kong, member of the class of 1929, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, only a decade or so after the islands became a United States t...

We are mourning the loss of Stanley Brown, retired Curator of Rare Books, who passed away earlier this week after a long illness. Stan gradu...

Next week, Special Collections will facilitate a Writing 3 class session that explores archival materials related to Dartmouth's histori...

“We have had some great excitement in Hanover,” Frank Whitcomb, class of 1911, wrote to his sister during his first winter at Dartmouth, “wh...

To start our Halloween weekend off right, we're taking a look at Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood, an early example of Europea...