Rauner Special Collections Library

In April of 1831, Charles Gibbs came clean while awaiting his execution by hanging at Ellis Island. One of the last American pirates of the ...

In the Spring of 1946, Dartmouth was trying to get back to normal. World War II had transformed campus into a training ground for Naval offi...

What did the world look like in 1592? Abraham Ortelius's Theatrvm orbis terrarvum , or, Theater of the world attempts to answer that qu...

In the early 20th century, eugenics—or the study of optimizing reproduction to promote “favorable traits” in a human population—took root th...

If you're reading this blog on the regular, then you likely know what a penny dreadful is. We've got a bunch of them as a result of...

This past week we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the opening of Rauner Special Collections Library. We kicked off the week with faculty ...

One of the more interesting phenomena in reading archived correspondence is the realization that everyone’s discussing the same event withou...