Rauner Special Collections Library

Cornelia Meigs. The Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1933 for her children’s book Invincible Louisa, a biography of Louisa May Alcott. Ev...

Walt Whitman was never shy about self promotion. He famously wrote anonymous reviews of his own Leaves of Grass (think what he could have do...

"Men who know most about sharks are the men who fear them the least... landlubbers will believe any shark story they hear, provided it ...

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...