19th Century

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

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

Dr. Michael R. Lynn
November 9, 2018

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music

Thomas J. Kernan
June 14, 2018

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

The Inquisition

Christopher Fletcher
June 14, 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

What does the archive offer for the exploration of Shakespeare in the digital age?

Paul Hecht
May 17, 2018

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Beowulf: History, Legend, and Mythology

Karl E. H. Seigfried
May 9, 2018

19th Century, Collection Essays

John C. Calhoun and American Disunion

Robert Elder, Valparaiso University
April 23, 2018

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

The European Discovery of Chocolate

Sarah Peters Kernan
April 13, 2018

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

Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800

How did the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Venetian empires interact with each other? How did their competition over southeastern Europe shape these borderlands and their inhabitants?

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
February 13, 2018

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

Thinking about World History: Historic Maps as Sources

Blue, green, and orange map, centering on a projection from of the globe oriented around the North Pole

What can old maps teach us about world history? What sorts of evidence do they offer, and is displaying evidence the main purpose of these maps, or can they do other things?

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

The Colonization of the Black Hills in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Historic Maps and Documents

Map of western United States in various colors indicating a variety of resources and their locations.

How can old maps help us understand the complexities of colonization in North America? What sorts of evidence do they offer? Does their distinct styling, framing, and content change how a particular landscape can be represented? Might these elements have in fact aided colonization in the Black Hills?

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017