Rauner Special Collections Library

One of the great joys of working at Rauner is the pleasure of unexpected discoveries. You're looking into a person or event when you stu...

When the second edition of The American Gazetteer came out in London in 1762, it was a pretty quiet event. There was nothing really new, ju...

One day in France in 1905, a tiny tragedy occurred. A small fly, attracted to a delicious pool of water, got too close to the surface, fell ...

John Martin Mecklin, Class of 1939, traveled a lot. A few years after graduating from Dartmouth, he became a correspondent for the Chicago S...

Well, we just managed to acquire something we always thought would be out of reach, but here it is, joining the collections, shaming everyth...

December 7, 1941 changed a lot for many in the United States, especially students of the draft age, but perhaps none experienced uncertainty...

It has long been known that reading aloud confers numerous benefits upon not only the reader but the listeners. Doing so can expand the voca...