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The Newberry is a renowned research library that offers lectures, workshops, and teacher programs, fostering research, teaching, and lifelong learning in an atmosphere of free inquiry.
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Civil Rights in Chicago Today
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Across the country, protests have erupted against the systemic perpetuation of racial inequality. In Chicago, African-American activists have taken to the streets and organized their communities to challenge institutionalized racism in the areas of policing, health care, education, and human rights. The Newberry welcomes three young African-American activists for a panel discussion on civil rights in Chicago today and the prospects for change in...
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The Dangerous Mind of Benjamin Lay
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This lecture, by Marcus Rediker, explores the life and thought of Benjamin Lay, a radical abolitionist dwarf who, in the 1730’s, practiced guerilla theater against slave-owners and became one of the first to argue for the immediate, unconditional abolition of slavery. This intellectual history from below argues that Lay’s radicalism was a rope of five strands: “primitive Quakerism,” seafaring solidarity, African-American freedom struggles,...
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Genealogy and Local History Orientation
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The Genealogy and Local History staff will introduce visitors to the Newberry and explain how to use its collections at an informal orientation. Aimed at researchers new to the library and/or new to genealogical research, this session will last approximately an hour, followed by a short tour of the library. Afterwards, you are welcome to begin your research in the General Reading Room where a reference librarian will be available to provide suggestions...
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Meet the Author:Catherine A. Stewart, Long Past Slavery
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Meet the Author: Catherine A. Stewart, Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine...
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John M. Wing Lecture on the History of the Book
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The year 2017 marks the centenary of the death of John M. Wing, the remarkable and eccentric collector whose bequest founded the Newberry’s John M. Wing Collection on the History of Printing. Over the last one hundred years the collection’s curators have amassed an extraordinary group of materials ranging from incunables to modern artist’s books to everything in between. Together they represent one of the world’s best known collections related...
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Understanding Chicago's Planning History
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Understanding Chicago's Planning History using the Chicago Collections Consortium Learn about little-known aspects of the history of city planning in Chicago, drawing on the breadth and depth of resources available through the Chicago Collections Consortium and EXPLORE Chicago Collections.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Looking Forward and Thinking Back
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This is a one time FREE course. To mark the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8, 1867, John Waters will focus his talk on two important written works by Frank Lloyd Wright, and their connections with his built work. The works are “The Art and Craft of the Machine,” presented to the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society in 1901, and Genius and the Mobocracy, published in 1949. In the first, Wright laid out a way of thinking...
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The 33rd Annual Newberry Book Fair
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Don’t miss our annual Newberry Book Fair, one of the largest used book sales in the country. Browse through more than 120,000 used books, movies, records and more in 70 categories, many of which are priced at $3 or less. Admission is FREE! Everything for sale at the Book Fair is generously donated, and all proceeds help further the Newberry’s mission to build and care for an extraordinary collection and share it—free of charge—with...
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The 2017 Bughouse Square Debates
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Join the Newberry Library for Chicago’s favorite free speech event! Lively musical entertainment will kick off the program at noon, followed by the Main Debate, soapbox speakers, and the presentation of two awards: the Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award and the Dill Pickle to the champion soapbox orator. In addition, nearly two dozen local organizations and causes will set up information tables in the park, with volunteers to answer your questions....
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An Eternal Story of Love and Loss: Orpheus and Opera
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This is a one time FREE course This fall the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet, is mounting an exciting new production of the 1774 Paris version of Christoph Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. But the myth of Orpheus journeying to the Underworld to find his deceased wife Eurydice has inspired composers from the first surviving opera by Jacopo Peri in 1600 to the Canadian composer John Robertson’s recent Orpheus masque,...
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Shakespeare Project of Chicago: As You Like It
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This is a one time FREE course. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts …” A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by J. R. Sullivan, of the Pearl Theatre Company in New York. An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is...
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Cosmopolitan Early Modern Venice
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This is a one time FREE course. Venice during the early modern era expanded its position as a major crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa. A commercial powerhouse, the independent republic mediated between Roman, Protestant, and Byzantine Christian as well as Islamic lands. Edward Muir and Kaya Sahin will discuss the unique role played by Venice during this great era of religious change.
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The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Modern America
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In this class, we will learn about how the 1920s helped create America as a world superpower. The 1920's was an exciting and eventful period of time for the United States and the world. It has been represented as a carefree time after the Great War, but great change occurred and a growing United States grew into a global power. We will learn about how these changes helped create America as a world superpower. Tom Irvine works with technology in...
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Chasing Wilder in Chicago
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This is a one time FREE course. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary and new edition of Wilder’s National Book Award-winning novel with a reception, actors, commentators, and cake! Participants: Tappan Wilder, Thornton Wilder’s nephew and literary executor, is Honorary Chairman of the Thornton Wilder Society. Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton:...
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Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Coriolanus
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This is a one time FREE course “Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible: a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is followed by a question-and-answer session with the director and...
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Irish Genealogy Research Program
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Join the Ulster Historical Foundation experts as they describe the ins-and-outs of research in the Emerald Isle. No previous research experience is required. Topics will cover the whole of Ireland. Preliminary Schedule 9:15-10:15 am Introduction to Irish and Scots-Irish Family History 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30-11:30 am Printed Sources for Irish Family History Newspapers, street directories, Ordnance Survey Memoirs, and British parliamentary...
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Authors Heather Hendershot and Simon Balto will discuss the implications for our understanding of the news media of one of the most pivotal moments in American political history—the 1968 Democratic convention. This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below. “The whole...
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Make Music Chicago 2023 in Washington Square Park
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Make Music Chicago 2023 Join us for another slate of outdoor performances as part of Make Music Chicago! Please note: This is an outdoor, in-person event taking place in Washington Square Park, across from the Newberry. Free and open to the public; tickets are not required, but you can register in advance to receive event updates. Celebrate the summer solstice with us! Featuring the Blues by Shawn Holt and the Teardrops and the Reggae stylings...
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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
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This is a one time FREE course. Our former fellow Christina Gerhardt, in conversation with climate and environment journalist Indira Khera, discuss the disproportionate impact that climate change has on island communities. Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. Atlases are being redrawn as islands disappear. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands...
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Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023
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Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023: Chicago Forward Celebrate the power of storytelling and the future of our city at this free event. The festivities will include the presentation of The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award. Chicago Storytelling in Bughouse Square 2023: Chicago Forward will focus on Chicago’s future and feature speakers whose work in the city strives to change our communities for the better. The festivities...
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Reviews of The Newberry
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Introduction to Screenwriting
Gorgeous place. Very helpful and friendly employees -
Introduction to Screenwriting
The Newberry library is such a wonderful place to have in our community for education, history and connection. -
Literature & Art in the Midwest Metropolis
Excellent speaker. -
Meet the Author: Tom Shachtman
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The Making of Modern Paris, 1852-1939
The instructor was excellent, a true scholar. One (the participant) did have to know some knowledge on the topic, though, since it was highly specialized. -
Introduction to Screenwriting
