Rauner Special Collections Library

You might know her from Caravaggio’s famous Medusa , the face of Versace, the book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians , or some other adaptat...

Last weekend, Jews around the world gathered to celebrate the holiday of Purim, or the Festival of Lots. This joyous occasion, celebrated ea...

While prepping for a class this Winter, we stumbled on an amazing 18th-century chart of prices. It has the typical merchandise you would exp...

Lizzie Jackson, in this letter from February 1853, paints an accurate depiction of someone suffering from depression.  Interestingly, though...

We recently acquired two humble yet fascinating little manuscripts that shed an impressive amount of light on the capitalistic and exploitat...

Happy March! We're getting impatient for spring around here and are celebrating the changing seasons with a look at one of the smaller b...

Can we become more virtuous just by looking at portraits of illustrious people? Yes, we can! This is the claim of 16th century portrait book...