Literature
Skills Lesson: Reading a Transcription
Civil War Letters
Learning from Premodern Plagues
Renaissance Humanism
From the Letters of Amy Eleanor Wingreen (1870-1919)
Shakespeare in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Politics, Poetry, and Religious Life in Late-Medieval England after the Black Death
Romantic Orientalism
Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta
Written and compiled by Lia Markey, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, and Stephanie Reitzig as a companion to the 2020 Newberry exhibition and book (Northwestern University Press) by the same title. Entries here have been adapted from texts by James R. Akerman, Ikumi Croccol, Olivia Dill, Christopher Fletcher, Marisa Guo, Elisa J. Jones, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Lee, Risa Puleo, Sandra Racek, and John Sullivan.