Chicago and the Midwest

19th Century

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe
August 20, 2013

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

20th Century

Picturing the Century of Progress: The 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair

Newberry Staff
July 12, 2016

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

19th Century, 20th Century

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

Dr. Rachel Boyle, Omnia History
December 2, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century

Subversives in the City: Responses to Political Radicalism in Chicago

Hana Layson with David Krugler
May 14, 2012

20th Century

The 1919 Race Riots

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

19th Century

The Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois

Cristen Chapman, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution–Chicago Chapter 2015 Newberry Teacher Fellow
December 31, 2015

19th Century, 20th Century

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

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017