Rauner Special Collections Library

If you are a woman of a certain age and your family of a certain social/political persuasion, at some point your mother or your most awesome...

In 1871, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth officially opened for business. The fledgling school boasted just three students and one ...

Beyond punishment for social wrongs, imprisonment has long functioned to silence or remove voices from the public forum. As we have seen wit...

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...