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World History

19th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Middle School

Comparing Portraits

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

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

Sugar and Power in the Early Modern World

Etching of white men participating in the sugar refinement process, including chopping up sugar cane, melting it in vats, and removing finished sugar from drying containers.

Dr. Sarah Peters Kernan, Independent Scholar
March 18, 2021

13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, Collection Essays

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, Collection Essays

Romantic Orientalism

Matthew Clarke, Newberry Library
July 31, 2020

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

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

Image of a factory of workers polishing armor.

Lia Markey, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Reitzig
June 3, 2020

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

The Making of the Bible, 400-1700

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
May 27, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: C3 Activity (Grades 9-12)

Nicholas Kryczka, PhD
January 22, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Unit Plan (Grades 6-12)

Nicholas Kryczka, PhD
January 17, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, High School, Lesson Plans

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Document-Based Questions

Nicholas Kryczka, PhD
January 17, 2020

17th Century, 18th Century, Classroom Materials, Elementary School, Lesson Plans, Middle School

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America: Visual Literacy Class Activity (Grades K-8)

Nicholas Kryczka, PhD
January 15, 2020

20th Century, Collection Essays

Experiencing the Great War, 1914-1918 and Beyond

Eugene Beiriger, Ph.D., DePaul University
May 16, 2019

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

Dr. Michael R. Lynn
November 9, 2018