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Literature

19th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

From the Letters of Amy Eleanor Wingreen (1870-1919)

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 30, 2021

19th Century, Collection Essays

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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

Jill Gage, Newberry Library
January 29, 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

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

Image of a factory of workers polishing armor.

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

20th Century, Collection Essays

Experiencing the Great War, 1914-1918 and Beyond

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

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

Dr. Michael R. Lynn
November 9, 2018

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

The American Gothic

Dr. Kara Johnson, The Newberry
June 4, 2018

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

Searching for Ophelia in the Archive

Paul Hecht
May 17, 2018

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Beowulf: History, Legend, and Mythology

Karl E. H. Seigfried
May 9, 2018

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

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
March 15, 2017