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19th Century

19th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Elementary School

Fort Laramie and the Dakota

DCCAuthor
June 23, 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.

newberry
March 18, 2021

19th Century, Collection Essays

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Colorful, illustrated vignettes of different scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

newberry
January 29, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

A born-digital image of people protesting with signs collected by the Newberry Library as part of its contemporary Chicago Protest Collection.

newberry
December 2, 2020

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Romantic Orientalism

newberry
July 31, 2020

19th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago after the Great Fire

newberry
February 5, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Migration and the Midwest

newberry
June 25, 2019

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Race, Respectability, and Resilience: African Americans in the Midwest

newberry
May 31, 2019

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

newberry
November 9, 2018

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music

newberry
June 14, 2018

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The Inquisition

Drawing of stage in a city square surrounded by a crowd. Members of the Inquisition are on the stage surrounded by victims they will punish, who sit in tiered seats around the edges of the stage. Members of the crowd carry pikes or spears.

newberry
June 14, 2018

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

The American Gothic

newberry
June 4, 2018