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World History

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.

Janice Lobo Sapigao, Skyline College
September 13, 2024

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

Distilling in Early Modern Europe

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, 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

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Anatomy of a Map

Map of the United States and Indian Territory. Insets on around the edges show major cities and pieces of infrastructure.

David Wiemer, PhD
September 29, 2023

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Skills Lessons

Skills Lesson: Decoding Lines in Maps

Map of Ohio with sections of surrounding states and Lake Eire, Ohio is broken into different colored counties. Roads, railroads, canals, and cities are marked.

David Weimer, PhD
September 21, 2023

16th Century, 17th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

Spanish Golden Age Nobility Documents

Two-page spread of an open book. On the right is a full-page illumination depicting a plumed helmet above a crest on a shield. The shield is split into four parts. Clockwise from the upper left: an armed knight on top of a tower, leaves surrounding a green rectangle crossed by a diagonal orange line, five black pots within a square surrounded by black Xs on a gold background, and a pattern of gray, black, and orange and gold checkered horizontal lines. The image is bracketed on both vertical side by a floral border. The image on the left also has vertical floral borders. These bracket two illuminations stacked vertically. The upper illumination shows Jesus (white) floating in a halo above a gold tomb. Three white men wearing armor cower away from him. The lower illumination shows a white man on a rearing white horse with sword raised. A figure wearing orange lays under the horse's feet.

Elizabeth A. Neary
April 13, 2023