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20th Century

20th Century, Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Grades K-3

Who Was Mother Jones?

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 2021

20th Century, Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades K-3, Visual Literacy

The Clarke-Hanneford Family

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 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

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

20th Century, Collection Essays

Women in the Workforce in the United States

Two-page spread entitled "Her Day Begins with a Frantic Race Against the Clock." Photos of Filling at a lunch counter, in a office with a man, walking on the sidewalk, in her bedroom, and reading in the bathroom (clockwise from top right).

Lisa Schoblasky, Newberry Library
October 18, 2019

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Migration and the Midwest

Rachel Boyle, PhD
June 25, 2019

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

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

Cathleen Martin, 2018-19 Mellon Foundation-Newberry Teacher Fellow
May 31, 2019

20th Century, Collection Essays

The 1919 Race Riots

Megan Geigner, Ph.D., Northwestern University
May 16, 2019

20th Century, Collection Essays

Experiencing the Great War, 1914-1918 and Beyond

Eugene Beiriger, Ph.D., DePaul University
May 16, 2019

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music

Thomas J. Kernan
June 14, 2018

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

The American Gothic

Dr. Kara Johnson, The Newberry
June 4, 2018