Page 4 – Digital Collections for the Classroom

New Look! More Classroom Materials!

Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up, Visual Literacy

Comparing Portraits

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

Classroom Materials, Full Lesson Plan, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up

The Hull House Neighborhood

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up

Fort Laramie and the Dakota

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 2021

20th Century, Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Grades K-3

Who Was Mother Jones?

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 2021

20th Century, Class Warm Up/Unit Opener, Classroom Materials, Grades K-3, Visual Literacy

The Clarke-Hanneford Family

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 23, 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

19th Century, Collection Essays

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Jill Gage, Newberry Library
January 29, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

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 27, 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

20th Century, Collection Essays

Decision 1920

Dr. Paul Durica
December 2, 2020