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Women

19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

These Are the Women Who Saved the Cities

Black-and-white bust photos of Jane Addmas (left) and Janie Porter Barrett (right). Addams is a middle-aged white woman wearing a high-necked black dress. Porter Barret is a younger light skinned Black woman wearing a high-necked dress decorated with buttons.

DCCAuthor
May 1, 2023

15th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Contexts for the Book of Margery Kempe

Colored drawing of a nun (St. Bridget) writing at a writing desk. An angel whispers in her ear while a monk prays next to her. Above her head is a dove descending from a burst of light representing the Holy Spirit. On either side of the dove are depictions of Jesus Christ. On the left, God the father (an older man with a beard) holds him after he was taken down from the cross. On the right, the Virgin Mary holds him as a baby. All the figures are white.

DCCAuthor
December 5, 2022

18th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Grades 6 and Up

The Will of Eduarda Rita Garduño

Two-page spread of a modern printed book.

newberry
November 3, 2022

20th Century, Classroom Materials, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans, Visual Literacy

Women’s Suffrage

newberry
April 6, 2022

19th Century, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up, Lesson Plans

From the Letters of Amy Eleanor Wingreen (1870-1919)

newberry
June 30, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Grades 6 and Up, Grades 8 and Up

The Narrative of Sarah Graves

DCCAuthor
June 25, 2021

20th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Grades 4 and Up, Grades 6 and Up, Grades K-3

Who Was Mother Jones?

DCCAuthor
June 23, 2021

20th Century, Collection Essays

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).

newberry
October 18, 2019

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Searching for Ophelia in the Archive

What does the archive offer for the exploration of Shakespeare in the digital age?

newberry
May 17, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

newberry
February 27, 2018

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

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

Page of text facing an image of a black woman seated at a desk holding a quill pen poised over a sheet of paper.

newberry
December 12, 2017

20th Century, Collection Essays

Flappers, G-men, and Prohibition’s Legacies

What caused Prohibition and passage of the Eighteenth Amendment?

newberry
July 19, 2017