Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1876, Americans celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in grand fashion. For six months, millions of visitors flock...

One of the best perks about being a staff member at Rauner is seeing all the amazing things that come into the collections all the time. And...

When Dr . John Snow had the handles to London's Soho Broad Street public water pump removed in 1854 in an attempt to curb a cholera o...

This edition of L'Office de la Vierge Marie (1619), or The Office of the Virgin Mary , was written by Pierre Coton, a French Jesuit who ...

1816 was a weird year for Dartmouth. The state of New Hampshire took over the school, transforming it into a public university and making ch...

We have talked a little about Charles Eastman, Class of 1887, in a past blog post in relation to the Osage and his work for the Department ...

Although Dartmouth is often noted as the birthplace of BASIC programming language, not as many people realize that it is also where Artifici...