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Accounts of Tenochtitlan

Hand-colored woodblock print of Tenochtitlan, showing it as a well-planned city in the middle of a lake. The core of the city is a rectangular plaza, surrounded by islands with houses. Causeways connect the city to the shore, and other settlements ring the lake.

newberry
November 4, 2025

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, College Prep, High School, Lesson Plans

Indigenous Chicago Curriculum

newberry
December 20, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Activities, High School

Distilling in Early Modern Europe

Image of a distillation factory.

DCCAuthor
June 27, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Food, Health, and the Humors in Early Modern Europe

Two-page spread of an early printed book.

DCCAuthor
June 17, 2024

16th Century, High School, Lesson Plans

Albrecht Dürer and Representations of Race in the Renaissance

DCCAuthor
June 13, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

Spanish Golden Age Nobility Documents

Two-page spread of an open book. On the right is a full-page illumination depicting a plumed helmet above a crest on a shield. The shield is split into four parts. Clockwise from the upper left: an armed knight on top of a tower, leaves surrounding a green rectangle crossed by a diagonal orange line, five black pots within a square surrounded by black Xs on a gold background, and a pattern of gray, black, and orange and gold checkered horizontal lines. The image is bracketed on both vertical side by a floral border. The image on the left also has vertical floral borders. These bracket two illuminations stacked vertically. The upper illumination shows Jesus (white) floating in a halo above a gold tomb. Three white men wearing armor cower away from him. The lower illumination shows a white man on a rearing white horse with sword raised. A figure wearing orange lays under the horse's feet.

DCCAuthor
April 13, 2023

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

Movable Mayhem: Pop-Up Books through the Ages

Sheets of paper layered one behind the other to create a 3D scene of buildings as if they rise up a hill. At the bottom is a body of water with fountains and a decorative balustrade running along its edge. Above this is a large neo-Romanesque house. Above this is an even larger rectangular building with grand entrances on each side, domes on the corners, and many flags. Above this is a cathedral-like building with tall windows filled with light and many domed towers. A US flag flies from its central, largest dome. The buildings are surrounded by lush plants.

DCCAuthor
March 3, 2023

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."

DCCAuthor
April 20, 2022

14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

Learning from Premodern Plagues

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October 13, 2021

14th Century, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century

Renaissance Humanism

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October 4, 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

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

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

Image of a factory of workers polishing armor.

newberry
June 3, 2020