United States History

17th Century

Foods of the Columbian Exchange

Sarah Peters Kernan
March 14, 2017

19th Century

Home Front: The Visual Culture of the Civil War North

Hana Layson with Daniel Greene
November 15, 2013

19th Century

Imagining the American West in the Late Nineteenth Century

Hana Layson and Scott M. Stevens
November 28, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century

Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, 1865-1924

Hana Layson and Daniel Greene
November 7, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century

Indians in the Archives

Newberry Staff
March 17, 2016

19th Century, 20th Century

Jazz, Chicago, and the Great Migration

Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried
July 19, 2017

19th Century

John C. Calhoun and American Disunion

Robert Elder, Valparaiso University
April 23, 2018

20th Century

Protected: 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 13, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century

Lifting as We Climb: African American Women’s Clubs in Progressive Era Chicago

Linda Becker, Westinghouse College Prep, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution–Chicago Chapter 2016 Newberry Teacher Fellow
December 20, 2016

19th Century

Lincoln, the North, and the Question of Emancipation

Hana Layson with Kate Masur
July 17, 2012