Rauner Special Collections Library

With the holidays incoming, we're taking a moment to share some festive illustrations from the papers of J.J. Lankes. Lankes was a 20th ...

We have lots of various captivity narratives in our collection. They are usually sensationalized stories set in New England--stories of terr...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein wasn't just a hit in the bookstores. Just a few years after its publication it was adapted in 1823 as P...

In the winter of 1956, Robert Frost made inquiries about acquiring apple trees for his home in Ripton, Vermont. Ira Glackens, a farmer with ...

Drinking has been around pretty much forever, but it took some time before anyone got around to creating a guide for the budding mixologist....

“This play is based upon historical fact.” So begins the text of a program we found recently for a play written by John Whiting and produced...

“I find very great Profit by having the other Rib join’d to my Body for it hath taken away all my Housework from me. But I had very hard sp...