Rauner Special Collections Library
Friday, November 7, 2025
Body-Snatching and Bad Luck
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In the winter of 1810, Doctor Nathan Smith wrote from Hanover to a fellow physician in Philadelphia. Smith apologized for not writing sooner...
Friday, October 31, 2025
At the Late Night, Double-Feature Picture Show... by RKO
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Trying to pick a scary movie to watch tonight? How about pulling some inspiration from Rauner's script collection? We have a few great o...
Friday, October 24, 2025
Cinderella, by any other name
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Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French writer and poet as well as a member of the Académie Française. In 1697, at the end of his illustri...
Friday, October 17, 2025
Not Noah's Dictionary
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October 16th was "Dictionary Day," so named because it is Noah Webster's birthday. Sure, we have lots of editions of Webster...
Friday, October 3, 2025
The Hammer of Witches
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We've got an evil one this week, both in terms of a book's subject matter and its impact in the world. Back in the fifteenth century...
Friday, September 26, 2025
Bloodletting for a Dim Future
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When people think of the invention of moveable type and the start of commercial printing in the West, their minds usually go to monumental w...
Friday, September 19, 2025
Exhibit: "From Vision to Reality: The Appalachian Trail from Then to Now"
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One hundred years ago, the first Appalachian Trail Conference was convened by the Federated Societies on Planning and Parks in Washington DC...
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