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World History

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

The Philippine-American War

Two-page spread of a small, lined notebook with handwritten text and drawings in blue pencil. The left-hand page is full of text, and the right-hand page has a drawing of Mayon volcano viewed from the sea.

Dr. Amy Kohout, Colorado College
June 5, 2026

16th Century, High School, Lesson Plans

Accounts of Tenochtitlan

Hand-colored woodblock print of Tenochtitlan, showing it as a well-planned city in the middle of a lake. The core of the city is a rectangular plaza, surrounded by islands with houses. Causeways connect the city to the shore, and other settlements ring the lake.

Dr. Delia Cosentino
November 4, 2025

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

New Lessons for a New Empire: Americans Learn about the Greater United States

Color map of the Pacific Ocean labeled "Our Islands in the Pacific Ocean"

Dr. Nicholas Kryczka
October 1, 2025

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

Polar History at the Newberry Library

Woodblock print of a sailing ship moving through bay with icebergs. A polar bear is eating a seal on one of the icebergs in the foreground.

Dr. Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
November 14, 2024

19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Causes and Impacts of the United States’ War with the Philippines

Postcard with image of Emilio Aguinaldo and short handwritten message

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Skyline College
September 13, 2024

19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, High School, Lesson Plans

US Imperialism in the Philippines

Sketch of the stern of ship with a large hole from an interior explosion in the side just above the waterline. Captioned "McCutcheon/Manila Bay/June 29-98"

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Skyline College
September 13, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Activities, High School

Distilling in Early Modern Europe

Image of a distillation factory.

Sarah Peters Kernan, PhD
June 27, 2024

16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Food, Health, and the Humors in Early Modern Europe

Two-page spread of an early printed book.

Sarah Peters Kernan, PhD
June 17, 2024

16th Century, High School, Lesson Plans

Albrecht Dürer and Representations of Race in the Renaissance

Dr. Lia Markey, Newberry Library
June 13, 2024

17th Century, Classroom Materials, College Prep, Lesson Plans

Resistance in the Colonial Caribbean (Advanced)

Title page for the Book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados: Illustrated with a Map of the Island, as also the Principal Trees and Plants there, set forth in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawn out by their several and respective Scales.

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
June 11, 2024

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

Resistance in the Colonial Caribbean

Map of Barbados with place names and small illustrations, including pigs and cattle, men leading camels, and a white man on a horse chasing and firing a gun at two Black men.

Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Newberry Library
June 11, 2024

Classroom Materials, Elementary School, Middle School, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Ephemera

Anti-women's-suffrage postcard showing an angry white man nursing a baby while a white woman, implied to be his wife, is protesting for women's votes outside.

Hilary Mac Austin
March 4, 2024