Literature

18th Century, 19th Century

Living in British Colonial India, 1750–1850

Ruby Daily
October 29, 2015

19th Century

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe
August 20, 2013

17th Century

Marriage and Family in Shakespeare’s England

Hana Layson with Susan Phillips
July 16, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century

Migration and the Midwest

Rachel Boyle, PhD
June 25, 2019

20th Century

Modernism and Chicago

Liesl Olson, The Newberry
May 16, 2017

18th Century

Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Africa and the Slave Trade

Hana Layson with Valentina Tikoff
October 22, 2012

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century

Protected: 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, 20th Century

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

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

16th Century, 17th Century

Religious Change and Print Culture in the Reformation

Dr. Chris Fletcher
December 6, 2016

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
March 15, 2017