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Digital Collections for the Classroom

Women’s History

18th Century

Subject to Citizen, Kingdom to Nation: Changing Notions of Identity in the Age of the French Revolution

Hana Layson and Jessica Grzegorski with Valentina Tikoff
February 26, 2013

19th Century, 20th Century

Subversives in the City: Responses to Political Radicalism in Chicago

Hana Layson with David Krugler
May 14, 2012

19th Century

The American Renaissance in Context

Hana Layson with Lawrence Howe
January 23, 2014

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

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century

The Legacy of the Middle Ages in the Renaissance and Beyond

Dr. Karen Christianson, Newberry Library
May 13, 2016

16th Century

Tudor Visual Culture

Libby Karlinger Escobedo, Ph.D.
January 12, 2017

15th Century

Wives and Wenches, Sinners and Saints: Women in Medieval Europe

Hana Layson
May 14, 2012

20th Century

Women in the Workforce in the United States

Two-page spread entitled "Her Day Begins with a Frantic Race Against the Clock." Photos of Filling at a lunch counter, in a office with a man, walking on the sidewalk, in her bedroom, and reading in the bathroom (clockwise from top right).

Lisa Schoblasky, Newberry Library
October 18, 2019

19th Century, 20th Century

Women on the Move: Gender and Mobility in American Culture, 1890–1950

Hana Layson and Ann Brigham
October 23, 2012

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

Women’s Fight for Their Inalienable Rights, 1630-1898

Cynthia Jurisson, University of Chicago Laboratory School, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution--Chicago Chapter 2017 Newberry Teacher Fellow
December 12, 2017