Rauner Special Collections Library

The use of emblems was popular during the Baroque time period in Italy and Europe in general, serving as a guide and source of inspiration f...

We have a new exhibit on display in our foyer: The Early African American Novel. Literature written by African American authors expanded eno...

Eighty-three years ago this month Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist known globally for the foundation of psychoanalysis, died in London...

One of the meta things about working in Rauner Library is that we are situated in the building that used to be the biggest speaker's ven...

De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Ancient and Modern Apparel of Different Parts of the World) is a seminal work ...

When Dewitte Duncan was nine years old, the United States government forcibly removed him, his family, and the Cherokee Nation from their an...

Superhero films and television shows have been around a long time - almost as long as the comic book characters inspiring them. That said, t...