Rauner Special Collections Library
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
John Locke Corrected
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Independence Day seems like a good time to take a look at our first issues of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . The...
Friday, June 28, 2024
No Such "Thing" as a "Game"
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The 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game was rough from the start. But its infamy didn't begin to cement until the second quarter, whe...
Friday, June 21, 2024
More than a Monster: Medusa as a Mutation
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For those of you who have visited Rauner to see the exhibit on display right now, “More than a Monster: Medusa Misunderstood,” you might now...
Friday, June 14, 2024
Cornelia Meigs: A Wildly Successful Experiment
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Cornelia Meigs. The Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1933 for her children’s book Invincible Louisa, a biography of Louisa May Alcott. Ev...
Friday, June 7, 2024
Singing the Song of Himself
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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...
Friday, May 31, 2024
Shark!
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"Men who know most about sharks are the men who fear them the least... landlubbers will believe any shark story they hear, provided it ...
Friday, May 24, 2024
A Pirate Looks at 400
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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 ...
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