Rauner Special Collections Library

We have a lovely first edition of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations published 250 year ago in...

On a Tuesday in May of 1831, President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth sat down at his writing desk to pen an awkward letter to Reverend Jacob Cumm...

A couple of years ago, we were lucky enough to be near the path of totality for a total solar eclipse. Upper Valley residents may have dealt...

We have been posting to this blog regularly for nearly 17 years. For a long time it was twice a week, but then we switched to once a week. S...

In our opinion, sammelbands are one of the most curious books to be found in Special Collections libraries the world over. Derived from the ...

We just acquired a stunner of a book: the 1532 edition of Marco Fabio Clavo's Antiquae urbis Romae cum regionibus simulachrum  [A Model ...

In the fall of 1988, famed 60 Minutes host Morley Safer 1 and his camera crew arrived in Hanover to capture a conflict that had erupted on...