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Collection Essays

16th Century, Collection Essays

The World According to Comenius: Seen and Unseen in the Orbis Sensualium Pictus

Single page an early printed book. Text is in English and Latin in black in an 17th-century font (some "s"s written as "f"s). On the left-hand page is a circular woodblock print image showing the land with people (numbered 9), animals (8), fields (7), hills (5), and trees (8); the sea with fish (4) in it, the sky with birds (3) and a band of clouds (2); above the clouds is darker sky with stars (1). Abov the image is the title "Mundus" and below it the title "The World."

Evan Dutmer, Ph.D., Culver Academies
April 20, 2022

18th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up

American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution: Glossary

Rachel Banke, PhD
March 23, 2022

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Latin American Independence in the Age of Revolutions

Will Hansen
August 25, 2021

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Sugar and Power in the Early Modern World

Etching of white men participating in the sugar refinement process, including chopping up sugar cane, melting it in vats, and removing finished sugar from drying containers.

Dr. Sarah Peters Kernan, Independent Scholar
March 18, 2021

19th Century, Collection Essays

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Jill Gage, Newberry Library
January 29, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

Leisure and Entertainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Color photograph of "The Bobs" ride sign. "Bobs" is written in white in all capitals, which an oranage line curving up and down between each letter. The letters and line have lightbulbs in them to illuminate them at night.

Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Newberry Library
January 27, 2021

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, Collection Essays

Politics, Poetry, and Religious Life in Late-Medieval England after the Black Death

Woodcut image of three skeletons dancing with one another above a fourth, who is rising out of the grave to join them. On the far left of the image a fifth skeleton plays a pipe.

Dr. Sarah Wilson, Newberry Library
January 6, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

Decision 1920

Dr. Paul Durica
December 2, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

Dr. Rachel Boyle, Omnia History
December 2, 2020

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Romantic Orientalism

Matthew Clarke, Newberry Library
July 31, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

Lia Markey, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Reitzig
June 3, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

The Making of the Bible, 400-1700

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
May 27, 2020