In 2019, the Library will join Dartmouth in celebrating its 250th anniversary. We have several key projects, exhibits and events designed to capture Dartmouth's unique character, indelible spirit, and rich history.
Projects
![Student Protests - Women's Issues](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/protest-women-coed-dartmouth.jpg?itok=wwWXeGyj)
Historical Accountability Student Research Program
We're telling stories about inclusion and diversity from Dartmouth’s past.
![Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary bookplate](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/250th-bookplate.jpg?itok=bNkG6c9P)
250th Anniversary Bookplate Winner
See Saba Maheen's winning entry for Dartmouth’s 250th-anniversary bookplate competition.
Exhibits & Events
![Repeating patches show a Dartmouth skier](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/skipatches-3.jpg?itok=qwHgBW3_)
Adventuresome Spirit
The individual adventures culminate here, at our college—a place for adventuresome spirits.
![Students laughing and wearing Dartmouth gear, other photos of students from years past](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/media-images/community.jpg?itok=9fBcKVem)
Generations of Community
See how the concept of "community" has evolved throughout Dartmouth's history.
![This woodcut depicts the liberal arts at the height of their expression in the late Middle Ages.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/media-images/curriculum.jpg?itok=FRH8boHc)
Curriculum Vitae: Digital Exhibition
Liberal Arts: at the center of Dartmouth's intellectual life.
![Professor addresses students in large hall](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/great-lectures.jpg?itok=5jB9zsEH)
On Solid Ground: Digital Exhibition
Can't travel to Hanover to visit our exhibit in Baker-Berry? See all the artifacts and more in our online experience!
![Daniel Webster portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/daniel-webster-promo-image.jpg?itok=4faIsAVQ)
Limits to Power: Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case
An exhibition tracing the landmark case Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. Woodward in celebration of its two hundredth anniversary.
Podcast: Hindsight is 20/19
![Map of New England from the Military Pocket Atlas](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/new-hampshire-map.jpg?itok=JHZipK4p)
Episode 8: The Alternative Narrative
How the College created the narrative of its founding.
![Nineteenth Century Trolling](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/250th-trolling-podcast_0.jpg?itok=dHSmFFlC)
Episode 6: Nineteenth Century Trolling
An exploration of one of the College’s more lawless traditions
![Letter to Dr. Bancroft, 1921](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/250th-1920s-podcast.jpg?itok=_4sZd7Ag)
Episode 5: Sexuality and Silences
Fears of homosexuality at Dartmouth cause the College’s 11th President to question the activities of a student theater troupe. Content warning: suicide and homophobia.
![William Dewey death text](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/250th-dewey-podcast.jpg?itok=tgdXJerf)
Episode 4: Intrigued by Death
William Worthington Dewey just can't stop thinking about death.
![Piece of wood from Dartmouth history](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/goal_post2-stick-podcast.jpg?itok=h-bgtxFK)
Episode 3: Finding Meaning in a Stick
Gifted by P. B. Tucker ’36, this splinter of wood from the goal post of a historic football game commemorates Dartmouth's first win against Yale in 51 years.
![Catalogue of students and staff at Dartmouth in 1817](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/media-images/university_catalog_sq.jpg?itok=AD39PI5-)
Episode 2: Butterfly Effect
How, in 1810, one woman's refusal to bow to a bully shaped the future of Dartmouth College.
![Dartmouth Charter Square](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/the_dartmouth_charter_sq.jpg?itok=zcAqcowZ)
Episode 1: Power of Word
Our introductory episode in which we describe how a few words changed the course of Dartmouth's history.
![Part of a goalpost from a Dartmouth-Yale 1935 football game.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_landscape/public/rauner_podcast_objects_810.jpg?itok=9m9saG17)
About the Podcast: Hindsight Is 20/19
Librarians share the stories behind 25 treasures—one per decade—from Dartmouth's history.