The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood that has been free and open to all since 1887. The Newberry fosters a deeper understanding of our world by inspiring research and learning in the humanities and encouraging conversations about ideas that matter to diverse audiences. Our mission is rooted in a growing and accessible collection of rare and historical materials that spans more than six centuries of human experience.
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Sep 10, 2026–Jan 02, 2027
At the Newberry – Hanson Gallery
Collecting Stories provides a glimpse into the Newberry's collection by exploring how our collection is built. This exhibition will pair recent acquisitions alongside pre-existing items from the collection to show how collecting at the library both enhances our collection and allows us to expand the scope of stories the Newberry can tell. The pairings create their own dynamic that speaks to how this increasingly diverse collection continues to evolve, generating new stories over time.
Explore how the new acquisitions add dimension to the Newberry's major collecting areas:
American History and Culture
American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Chicago and the Midwest
Genealogy and Local History
History of the Book
Maps, Travel, and Exploration
Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies
Modern Manuscripts and Archives
Performance Arts
Postcards
Religion
Jill Austin, former Vice President of Public Engagement, The Newberry Library.
Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Reference Services Librarian and Selector for Reference.
Jill Gage, Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing and Bibliographer for British Literature and History.
Will Hansen, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collection and Library Services, and Curator of Americana.
Alison Hinderliter, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts and Selector for Modern Music.
Analú López, Ayer Librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
Matthew Rutherford, Curator of Genealogy and Local History.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
David Weimer, Robert A. Holland Curator of Maps and Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.
The Hanson Gallery is a small, intimate space. Exhibitions mounted there typically include 12-24 items, allowing visitors a glimpse of what the Newberry’s vast collections have to offer. Hanson exhibitions are often modest thematic presentations that draw from a range of the library's collections or interpretive explorations that are built around single items. Examples of past exhibitions include: Wheels and Indigenous Portraits Unbound. Click here to view a photo of the gallery.
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Though the sheen of foreign silks enhanced the beauty of these objects for specific recipients, the techniques used to make them soon served wider audiences and cheaper fabrics equally well. Indeed, while surviving early examples are kept in museum and library collections, they inspired more recent printed wearables such as memorial imagery on t-shirts. From the ethereally unfamiliar to the everyday, exhibition audiences will find these fabric printings dazzling, intriguing, and thought-provoking.
The accompanying exhibition catalog will be available in Fall 2026.
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Reception: 5 to 6 pm
Program: 6 to 7 pm
Ruggles Hall
Free and open to all. Reserve your free tickets now.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
EXHIBITIONS
In this curator talk, Katherine Litwin, Fred Sasaki, and Graham Lee will give visitors a behind-the-scenes overview of the development of our winter exhibition, Jun Fujita: American Visionary.
Co-presented by the Newberry and the Poetry Foundation, Jun Fujita, American Visionary focuses on the extraordinary accomplishments of poet and photojournalist Jun Fujita. An expanded version of Jun Fujita: Oblivion, first mounted at the Poetry Foundation in 2017, the exhibition explores Fujita’s poetry, photojournalism, landscape photography, and uncommon life.
Born outside of Hiroshima in 1888, Fujita came to Chicago in 1909, becoming the first Japanese American photojournalist in the city. As an English-language tanka poet, he published regularly in Poetry during the 1920s; as a photographer, he captured many of the most famous moments in Chicago history, including the Eastland Disaster, the 1919 race riots, and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Throughout his work, Fujita put forward a vision of what “American” can mean, achieving unprecedented success in his profession despite the hostility, prejudice, and persecution he faced as a Japanese native.
Speakers’ Bios:
Fred Sasaki is Art Director for Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation’s Exhibitions Co-curator. He edited Who Reads Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2017) with Don Share and Jun Fujita: Oblivion (Poetry Foundation, 2017) with Katherine Litwin. He also publishes Sasaki Family Zines with his closest friends and collaborates with Homeroom Chicago and the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project.
Katherine Litwin is Library Director and Exhibitions Co-curator for the Poetry Foundation. She edited Jun Fujita: Oblivion (Poetry Foundation, 2017) with Fred Sasaki.
Graham Lee is a writer, graphic designer, and the great nephew of Jun Fujita. Lee spent the last five years researching Fujita’s life, retracing his great uncle’s footsteps, and creating a story that combines a rich family history with historical and personal photographs of extraordinary Chicago events.
This event is made possible by a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is being held in conjunction with the Newberry’s current exhibition, Jun Fujita: American Visionary. The exhibition and this program are co-sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
Your generosity is vital in keeping the library’s programs, exhibitions, and reading rooms free and accessible to everyone. Make a donation today.
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Part of Towards Common Cause
Sweet Bitter Love presents Jeffrey Gibson’s reflections on representations of Indigenous people in cultural institutions. Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, responds to nineteenth-century portraits of Indigenous people in the Newberry Library’s collection. His paintings and wallpaper refute ethnographic symbolism with vibrant, glittering layers. Surrounding documentation of ceremonial gifts acquired by the Field Museum in 1991, Gibson’s works question our expectations for what qualifies as cultural artifacts and the institutional practices surrounding their care. As they enter into critical dialogue across the gallery space, these art objects collectively deconstruct myths about Indigenous cultures and attest to Native persistence.
Learn more and visit the Newberry Library
Image: Jeffrey Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, 2021, Cotton Rag Paper, Inkjet Print, Vintage Beaded Eyeglass Case (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread, Suede), Vintage Beaded Barrette (Glass Beads, Polyester, Thread), Vintage Papers, Found Pin, Glass Beads, Glitter, Urethane, Acrylic Paint. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. Photography by John Lusis.
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FREE.
Poster by Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Published by Chameleon Horse Art & Design.
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Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time, the Newberry Library’s fall exhibition, tells the story of five Chicago women who took radical risks in their lives and their art, transforming their city into a hub of avant-garde experimentation in the process. Featuring a range of items from the Newberry’s collections, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that includes more than 100 photographs, an essay by exhibition curator Liesl Olson, and new poems by Eve Ewing.
In this discussion, Olson will talk with the catalog’s designers—printmaker Ben Blount and artists Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer—about the exhibition and how the catalog they created illuminates Chicago’s avant-garde dancers, writers, and artists, past and present.
To demonstrate and document their creative process, Sonnenzimmer and Blount are producing a special edition print. Broadsides will be available to visitors for takeaway.
Please note: This is an in-person event at the Newberry. Following guidelines from the Chicago Department of Public Health, masks are required for all attendees above the age of two, regardless of vaccination status.
Top image: Ben Blount and Sonnenzimmer, Cover design for Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time, 2021.
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Presented by prof. Niall Atkinson
This lecture will trace the spatial and social dimensions of the urban development of the city of Florence from the late Middle Ages until the time of Botticelli at the turn of the sixteenth century. In this period Florence emerged as one of the most dynamic economies as well as one of the most innovative centers of cultural and scientific innovation in pre-modern Europe. Through a series of case studies this lecture will investigate the underpinnings of these developments and innovations through an exploration of key monuments of the built environment that led to the formation of the city that Botticelli called home. This lecture is sponsored by Chicago Map Society.
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Niall Atkinson is Associate Professor of Art History and Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the experience of architecture and urban space in early modern Italy in order to understand the built environment as a collective social construction of the body’s sensorial apparatus. His recent work has explored the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in the construction of civic society, culminating in the publication of The Noisy Renaissance: sound, architecture, and Florentine urban life (Penn State, 2016). He is currently co-writing a book on the urban visual and spatial effects of the narratives and itineraries of French travelers to early modern Rome (with Susanna Caviglia, Duke University). He is also experimenting with digital technologies to spatialize the demographic data contained in the 1427 tax census of Florence (catasto) into an interactive geographic platform. In collaboration with a consortium of related digital reconstruction projects focused on Renaissance Florence (Florentia Illustrata), this method of geo-referenced spatial history will lay the groundwork for future experiments in mapping the soundscapes and other sensory experiences of early modern cities. Future projects include the role of city descriptions in mediating cultural exchange in early modern Mediterranean travel accounts, as well as an ongoing interdisciplinary collaborative project exploring the cultural interactions of the Indian Ocean (“Interwoven: Sonic, visual and textual histories of the Indian Ocean world”). In 2018, he co-curated the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale on the theme, “Dimensions of Citizenship.”
The lecture series “Quattrocento Florence: the City and its Artists” is co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies and complements the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” Four art historians explore urbanism and the production of art in fifteenth-century Florence through close analysis of works in the MIA exhibition.
The exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi” is open at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from October 16, 2022 through January 8, 2023. For more information, visit artsmia.org
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The 18th- and 19th- century “American Indian Wars” and 21st-century “Global War on Terror” are two of the longest military conflicts in US history. Although rarely considered in relation to one another, these “long wars” are endlessly intertwined through similar military strategy and the persistence of anti-colonial resistance. The residues of these entanglements are visible in the creative responses to these long wars by Indigenous, Black, and South Asian artists, some of whom are veterans.
Surviving the Long Wars: Residues and Rebellions highlights intimate connections across vast differences in time, geography, and medium to propose uncommon alliances that can serve as a foundation for solidarity.
Historic works from the Newberry's Edward E. Ayer Collection including the Black Horse Ledger (Cheyenne), Kiowa Indian ledger drawings, and ink and watercolor drawings by Frederick Gokliz (Apache) are paired with contemporary artworks to reclaim visible yet overlooked strategies of BIPOC survival and resistance. From ledger art and collage to beadwork and portraiture, the featured works record community history, redirect the colonial gaze, and recycle the technologies of US militarism to open up alternative ways of knowing, sensing, and living in the long wars.
FEATURED ARTISTS
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Pop-up books go back centuries. Since the 1400s, readers have been lifting flaps, spinning dials, and opening elaborate three-dimensional spreads in the pages of books. The earliest interactive texts were intended for scholars. Over time, pop-up books found new audiences and grew in popularity, engaging a wide range of users from emperors to mathematicians to children.
Featuring books, maps, and ephemera from the Newberry collection, Pop-Up Books through the Ages traces the extensive history of hands-on reading. Tactile, interactive components can be found in everything from a 1483 astronomical calendar and a 1775 battle map to a 1932 edition of Pinocchio. Viewing these different items in one place, visitors will see how the art, science, and business of pop-up books evolved over hundreds of years.
In addition to exploring the past, the exhibition highlights the present and future of pop-up books, including the work of contemporary book and paper artists who are pushing the form in new directions. Two of these artists, Hannah Batsel and Shawn Sheehy, have even designed a pop-up version of the Newberry that you can take home and construct yourself!
Pop-Up Books through the Ages is generously supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose, Alan Templeton, Diane and Richard Weinberg, and The Movable Book Society.
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The Newberry Library is holding a hybrid event for an in-depth look at their rich holdings of choirbooks from colonial Mexico, which combined European forms with Indigenous traditions to produce new spiritual music.
Attendees can attend the event in person at the Newberry Library in Ruggles Hall, 60 W Walton St, Chicago or via Zoom.
This roundtable discussion will examine the books and music from three diverse perspectives: music historian Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas will illuminate the cultural context of the music, art historian Claudia Brittenham will consider the material aspects of the Newberry’s large-scale books, and renowned early music vocalist Ellen Hargis will share the experience of researching and performing the music today. Clips of recordings of music from these historic books will serve as the soundtrack for the conversation.
This event is cosponsored by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation. It is a related partner program for the Shift: Music, Meaning, Context exhibition.
Register at the links below for the event:
In-person Registration
Livestream Registration
Image: Mexican choirbook, volume 4, ca. 1600/1799.
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Join Bruce Kennett as he discusses W.A. Dwiggins' story collection, Athalinthia. Produced entirely in New England, the book is filled with delights. It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W.A. Dwiggins, one of the great visual artists of the twentieth century. Wise and witty stories written by Dwiggins are accompanied by more than a hundred of his fanciful illustrations – many never before seen in print.
From 1910 to 1926, Dwiggins created a series of stories about an imaginary place he named Athalinthia and the people who lived there. A place perhaps akin to Persia a thousand years ago, or Uzbekistan in the nineteenth century … he never said. This is Dwiggins at his most fanciful, his most personal.
In 1928, after nearly twenty years of writing and picture-making, Dwiggins tried valiantly to get his stories published in one volume. He designed the book, made a dummy, and shopped it around to publishing houses. He had no luck. Discouraged, Dwiggins put the project aside. Thankfully, after a delay of nearly a hundred years, Dwiggins' biographer Bruce Kennett picked it up and saw it through to the end. This is a remarkable achievement and a pure delight. In these troubling times, stories such as these are a comfort for all of us to have on our bookshelves.
SPEAKERS
Bruce Kennett is author of the comprehensive biography, W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design. In works as varied as bookplates less than two inches high to photo murals fifty feet long, he employs words and images in varying combinations. He has worked as a printer and compositor (letterpress and offset), designer, photographer, teacher, presenter, and editor at large, with clients ranging from the Los Angeles Children’s Museum and Folger Shakespeare Library to Boston College Law School and L.L. Bean.
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Public Program | Register Today
Our latest exhibition, Pop-Up Books through the Ages, is a hit, having already delighted thousands of visitors with its playful and insightful look at the history of moveable books.
Join us as curator Suzanne Karr Schmidt, book artist Hannah Batsel, paper engineer Shawn Sheehy, and historian Juliet Sperling pull back the curtain—or rather, lift the flap—on the art, science, and business of pop-up books through the ages.
Thursday, May 25 at 6pm (CT). In-person or online.
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This program will be held in-person at the Newberry.
Before they were made for children, pop-up books were made for adults. In this event led by Suzanne Karr Schmidt, curator of Pop-Up Books through the Ages, you’ll discover the surprisingly provocative content of pop-up books of the past.
This program is being held in conjunction with the Newberry exhibition Pop-Up Books through the Ages, generously supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose, Alan Templeton, Diane and Richard Weinberg, and The Movable Book Society.
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Interested in exploring the Newberry’s vast collection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and primary sources but not sure where to start? Then this session is for you.
In an informal orientation, Newberry librarians will introduce you to the Newberry and break down how to use our collection. If you’re new to the Newberry, new to research libraries, or an occasional visitor ready to take your humanities research to the next level, “Newberry 101” is a must.
The session will last approximately an hour. Following the orientation, you're welcome to stick around for a guided tour of the library. You can also begin exploring our collections in the General Reading Room, where a reference librarian can provide assistance.
In order to maximize your research time, please register in advance as a Newberry Reader. Click on https://requests.newberry.org and select “Create an Account.”
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“The whole world is watching!” cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets. When some of that violence was then aired on network television, another kind of hell broke loose. Some viewers were stunned and outraged; others thought the protestors deserved what they got. No one—least of all Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley—was happy with how the networks handled it.
In this Meet the Author event, join Heather Hendershot and Simon Balto for a discussion of Hendershot’s new book, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. In her book, Hendershot revisits TV coverage of those four chaotic days—not only the violence in the streets, but also the tumultuous convention itself, where Black citizens and others forcefully challenged southern delegations that had excluded them, anti-Vietnam delegates sought to change the party’s policy on the war, and journalists and delegates alike were bullied by both Daley’s security forces and party leaders. Ultimately, Hendershot reveals the convention as a pivotal moment in American political history, one in which a distorted notion of “liberal media bias” became mainstreamed and nationalized. As Hendershot demonstrates, it doesn’t matter whether the “whole world is watching” if people don’t believe what they see.
When the News Broke is available to purchase at the Newberry bookshop, and Hendershot will sign copies after the talk.
This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Collections Consortium.
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What happens when you search for “wheels” in the Newberry’s catalogs? From the literal to the metaphorical, postcards to pamphlets, the wheel appears throughout the library’s holdings in a variety of formats, genres, and time periods.
Discover the surprising depth and breadth of our collections through this exhibition on the functional, uncomplicated, and expressive wheel.
Wheels is curated by Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Reference Services Librarian and Selector for Reference.
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CHICAGO - The Newberry Library’s newest exhibition examines the roots of race in the premodern world. Seeing Race Before Race, presented by the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies, probes how race developed as a social construct from the Middle Ages to 1800. The exhibition features maps, manuscripts, paintings, printed books, paintings, automata, and woodcuts dating from 1250 to 1800, the majority of which are part of the Newberry’s vast collections.
Long before the term “race” came into use, people categorized each other through distinctions like language, dress, class, geography, and religion—in addition to traits like skin color or facial features. While the exhibition includes loan items from as far away as India and South America, it focuses primarily on “Western” perspectives because the system of race that we experience today largely developed through the decisions, ideas, and actions of premodern Europeans.
\"Traditional scholarship in Europe and North America has often overlooked race as a social construct prior to the trans-Atlantic trafficking in enslaved Africans,” said Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. “Seeing Race Before Race looks at the medieval and Renaissance periods and centers the expertise, perspectives, and sociopolitical interests of BIPOC scholars. The Newberry is uniquely positioned to spark dialog and bring this work to life in the form of an exhibition.”
Among the highlights of the exhibition is a 1477 edition of Parsival, an Arthurian romance from the twelfth century featuring a biracial character, that reveals medieval ideas about the relationship between physical features and certain behaviors. Tarih-i Yeni Dünya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev is a luxury manuscript (ca. 1600) from Ottoman Turkey that features an image of light- and dark-skinned individuals standing back-to-back at the Potosí silver mine in what is now Bolivia. A sixteenth-century book by Nicholas de Nicolay examines clothing as an aspect of racial identity. A Letter from a Merchant at Jamaica to a Member of Parliament in London (1709) is among the items that shows how Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans resisted the violent tactics of colonizers. Despite advocating for the reform—not abolition—of slavery, the printed pamphlet includes an enslaved African’s eulogy for a murdered “Fellow-Negro,” which argues poetically for Black rights.
Seeing Race Before Race draws on the pathbreaking work of the Newberry’s partners in the RaceB4Race research collective. The exhibition’s curators are:
Seeing Race Before Race, presented in English and Spanish, opens Friday, September 8, and runs through Saturday, December 30 in the Newberry’s Trienens Galleries. The library is located at 60 West Walton Street; hours are 10am to 7pm Tuesday through Thursday and 10am to 5pm Friday and Saturday. Entrance is free of charge.
Related offerings include:
Sept. 12, 6pm - Understanding Race: Past and Present, renowned scholars Olivette Otele and Noémie Ndiaye will discuss the state of race-making through a transnational perspective. In-person and online, free.
Oct. 17, 6pm - Il Moro/The Moor: A Story of Alessandro de’ Medici, delve into the life of Alessandro de’ Medici with Daphne Di Cinto, the writer, director, and producer of the Oscar-qualifying short film \"Il Moro/The Moor.\" In-person, free.
Oct. 21-Nov. 1, 1pm - Seeing Race Before Race Adult Education Series, explore the premodern (ca. 1100-1800) foundations of today’s “racial system” alongside the Newberry’s exhibition in this three-class series. In-person, $195.
Nov. 7, 6pm - Performing Race: Past and Present, explore how race was understood and performed on the early modern stage through a series of dynamic performances by actors from Congo Square Theatre. In-person and online, free.
Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World, a companion publication that features items from the Seeing Race Before Race exhibition. Available via the Newberry Bookshop, in-person and online, $49.95.
About the Newberry
The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood that has been free and open to all since 1887. The Newberry fosters a deeper understanding of our world by inspiring research and learning in the humanities and encouraging conversations about ideas that matter to diverse audiences. Our mission is rooted in a growing and accessible collection of rare and historical materials that spans more than six centuries of human experience. To learn more, visit www.newberry.org.
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Sept. 19, 6-7:30pm
Sept. 26, 6-7:30pm
Oct. 3, 6-7:30pm
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Seeing Race Before Race Adult Education Series, explore the premodern (ca. 1100-1800) foundations of today’s “racial system” alongside the Newberry’s exhibition in this three-class series. In-person, $195.
Sept. 19, 6-7:30pm
Sept. 26, 6-7:30pm
Oct. 3, 6-7:30pm
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Seeing Race Before Race Adult Education Series, explore the premodern (ca. 1100-1800) foundations of today’s “racial system” alongside the Newberry’s exhibition in this three-class series. In-person, $195.
Sept. 19, 6-7:30pm
Sept. 26, 6-7:30pm
Oct. 3, 6-7:30pm
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Nov. 7, 6pm
Performing Race: Past and Present, explore how race was understood and performed on the early modern stage through a series of dynamic performances by actors from Congo Square Theatre. In-person and online, free.
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CURATOR
Will Hansen, Roger and Julie Baskes Vice President for Collections and Library Services, and Curator of Americana
HOURS
Tuesday – Thursday
10am – 7pm
Friday and Saturday
10am – 5pm
Admission for Newberry exhibitions is free. No advance registration required.
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This program is free and open to all. Advance registration required.
Calligraphy evolved into a fine art practice in the mid-20th century, and it continues to be reimagined by artists today. To keep the art of beautiful lettering alive, it must be practiced.
Join us and the Chicago Calligraphy Collective for an interactive and family-friendly event focused on expressions of love and care. Enjoy demonstrations of different forms of lettering and related arts – origami, paper embossing, gilding, and more – and try your hand at making your own Valentine projects. This event is open to writers and makers of all ages.
Take in this open-house-style event at your own pace, and enjoy free hot chocolate, coffee, and treats as you circulate.
The Chicago Calligraphy Collective is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting the study, practice, and appreciation of calligraphy in all its historical and present-day applications and strives to enhance public awareness and interest in the calligraphic lettering arts.
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Relive a night on the town in the mid-twentieth century
Mister Kelly's was one of the hotspots of Chicago nightlife in the 1950s through the mid-1970s. Located on Rush Street in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood, the club was a welcoming venue where people could be entertained by top-shelf jazz and comedy talent and see rising stars who later gained international fame. Names like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Mort Sahl, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, and Richard Pryor regularly graced the marquee of Mister Kelly's. And club founders and brothers George and Oscar Marienthal thought of everything to ensure a quality experience for their patrons. This exhibition draws on the Mister Kelly's Collection at the Newberry to re-create the excitement of a night at Mister Kelly’s.
A Night at Mister Kelly’s is supported by the Rosaline G. Cohn Endowment for Exhibitions. The Newberry also thanks David Marienthal for his gift of the Mister Kelly’s Collection.
CURATOR: Alison Hinderliter, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Modern Manuscripts and Selector for Modern Music, Newberry Library
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Jun 20–Sep 28, 2024
At the Newberry – Hanson Gallery
The late Chicago journalist Mike Royko will be the subject of a new exhibition, Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism, at the Newberry Library from June 20 through September 28. The exhibit features photographs, news clippings, selected writings, and ephemera drawing from the Mike Royko Papers at the Newberry. Royko’s career spanned five decades in an era when Chicago was a city of newsprint, long before the days of social media and the 24-hour cable news cycle.
Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism is curated by Sarah Boyd Alvarez, Director of Exhibitions, Newberry Library; Kristin Emery, Director of Governance and Strategic Initiatives, Newberry Library; and Bill Savage, Professor of Instruction, English Department, Northwestern University. Royko’s widow, Judy Royko, donated the Royko Papers to the Newberry in 2005, and she helped plan the show with some of her late husband’s former colleagues.
Best known for his daily column, Royko wrote for the Chicago Daily News from 1959 until the paper’s closure in 1978. He then joined the Chicago Sun-Times and later wrote for the Chicago Tribune until his death in 1997. Royko thought of himself as a reporter first and foremost, and his distinctive perspective on local politics and issues that mattered to fellow Chicagoans drew an audience of countless loyal readers. Eventually, national syndication gave him an audience far beyond the Chicago area. Royko’s 1971 book, Boss, about Mayor Richard J. Daley, was a best-seller that has never gone out of print.
Exhibitions at the Newberry are free and open to all. Exhibition hours are 10am-7pm Tuesday through Thursday and 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
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Home to the Potawatomi, Odawa, Ojibwe, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Myaamia, Wea, Sauk, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk peoples, the place we now call Chicago has long been a historic crossroads for many Indigenous people and remains home to an extensive urban Native community. Yet most Chicagoans are unaware of the city’s history as a home to diverse Indigenous peoples and the vibrant Indigenous communities present today. Part of a multifaceted initiative developed in partnership between the Newberry, advisors from the Chicago Native community, and representatives from tribal nations with historic connections to Chicago, this exhibition reflects the dynamic and complex aspects of Native life in Chicago from the seventeenth century to the present. The exhibition draws largely on the Newberry's collection while also showcasing new work by contemporary Native artists, including Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), Camille Billie (Oneida), and Jim Terry (Ho-Chunk).
CURATORS
Rose Miron, Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Analú María López (Huachichil/Xi'iui), Ayer Librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Doug Kiel (Oneida), Department of History, Northwestern University
Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/Dine), American Indian Center of Chicago
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Image: The cover of Jim Terry's graphic novel, Paper Cuts.
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Dec 12, 2024–Mar 29, 2025
At the Newberry – Hanson Gallery
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Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity's Relationship with Birds
June 20 - September 27, 2025
For centuries, humanity has had a complex relationship with birds, which have often been seen as pests or resources to be exploited, impediments to progress and threats to well-being. At the same time, Enlightenment thinkers made great efforts to study, depict, and classify birds as a means toward better understanding the cosmos. And birds have been a source of inspiration and meaning across eras and cultures. Our upcoming exhibition, Winging It: A Brief History of Humanity’s Relationship with Birds, shares examples from the Newberry's collection and how birds persist today oftentimes in spite of encroachment on their land, water, and air.
Curator: Bob Dolgan, Director of Communications, Newberry Library
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Chicago Storytelling has its roots in the Bughouse Square Debates, an event created in 1986 by the Newberry at the urging of Studs Terkel, Arthur Weinberg, and Lila Shaffer Weinberg. Bughouse Square, as Washington Square Park is famously known, was once a cow pasture where farmers would bring their cattle for water. Over the years, it transformed into a dynamic gathering place that encouraged freedom of expression. The Newberry will build on that legacy by inviting authors to share their stories as part of this free event that begins at 1pm on the 20th.
The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, launched in 2021, is open to writers working in a variety of genres, including history, biography, social sciences, poetry, drama, graphic novels, and fiction—all relating to Chicago. The Burning of the World is a gripping and deeply researched account of our city’s most destructive catastrophe and the long process of rebuilding in its wake. Berg’s book has been lauded by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Mark and Lisa Pattis, founders of the award, recently spoke to WGN TV about what went into developing—and funding—a celebration of books about Chicago.
In addition to honoring Berg, who will receive a $25,000 prize, the juried panel also recognizes McClellan, author of Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois, and Steinbrecher and The Salt Shed: The Transformation of a Chicago Landmark. Both McClellan and Steinbrecher will receive awards of $2,500.
The public may register for the event, which takes place in-person and via Zoom, at https://www.newberry.org/calendar/chicago-storytelling-2025
Lines are foundational to how maps communicate. They guide you home from a new restaurant, tell you how tall a mountain is, and warn you not to stray too far in the wrong direction. They sometimes even tell you about the life a map has lived. Over centuries, mapmakers have developed (and abandoned) an amazing variety of ways to use lines to bring our world to life. This exhibition follows lines on maps to their extremes in examples from mundane textbooks to avant-garde art. Through these lines, maps rationalize their world view, even as they reveal perspectives that are neither universal nor neutral.
Mapping Outside the Lines is generously supported by Rand McNally.
David Weimer, Robert A. Holland Curator of Maps and Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
Public Programs at the Newberry are free and open to all. Registration required in advance.
Folded Map™ Project Screening and Discussion, November 6, 5:30pm
Join us for a screening of Folded Map™ Project – The Movie followed by a discussion led by Tonika Lewis Johnson.
Mapping Migrations, November 15, 11am
Artist, Sandy Rodriguez, and Newberry Curator of Maps, David Weimer, will lead an artmaking workshop exploring how you can repurpose maps to make your own map of Chicago.
Adult Education classes at the Newberry require registration in advance and a modest fee.
How Maps Work, four sessions, starting November 4, 2pm
Taught by David Weimer, this class will trace the development of maps and mapping in Europe and the Americas by looking at what, at different points in the last 500 years, has made a map a map. In conjunction with the exhibition, we will engage with some contemporary artists’ work with maps to think about why maps continue to matter to us in the digital age.
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In the mid-1990s, prompted by the rise of the internet, new imaging technology, and increasing demand, the Newberry began to digitize its material. While this work initially supported specific publications and exhibitions, the benefits quickly expanded. Now, digitization is central to our mission, making a significant and ever-growing portion of our holdings accessible to scholars globally, fostering new types of research, and engaging a broader public.
This exhibit offers a snapshot of our digital collection, showcasing some of our most popular educational and interactive digital resources.
The Newberry will hold an event on Saturday, January 24, designed to help both new and returning visitors learn more about the independent research library in Chicago’s Gold Coast. “Winter NewberryFest” is an open house-style event that will lean into the library’s extensive collection of maps, dating from the 1500s through present. NewberryFest arrives as a current exhibition, Mapping Outside the Lines, takes visitors through a vast array of maps from mundane textbooks to avant garde art.
Winter NewberryFest will take place on the first floor of the library (60 West Walton Place, Chicago) with a wide variety of activities that are free and open to all. A few of the activities taking place on Saturday, January 24, from 12-3pm, include:
Registration is encouraged to receive updates and reminders about the event.
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The exhibition is curated by Eric Slauter, Deputy Dean of the Arts and Humanities Division and the College at University of Chicago. Slauter is the author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, essays on the language of rights and equality in early America, and a forthcoming book on the origins, meanings, and afterlives of the Declaration of Independence.
The Newberry's copy of the Declaration is a rare broadside from Newport, Rhode Island, mistakenly dated June 13 rather than July 13, 1776, that demonstrates how supporters and opponents of independence might have first encountered the empire-shattering news. Only in August 1776, as the document began to circulate in Europe, did delegates of Congress sign the famous handwritten parchment scroll currently at the National Archives.
Other exhibition items include:
Free and Independent will be on view in the Hanson Gallery through July 18’s NewberryFest open house celebration, and is part of an array of programs and events related to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration. The Newberry is proud to be a partner in Illinois America 250, an inclusive, statewide effort to bring together Illinoisans’ diverse perspectives about our history – and our future. Learn more at: https://www.newberry.org/the-newberry-observes-america-250.
Free Public Programs being held along with the exhibition include:
“Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States.”
Presenters: Author Michelle McDonald in conversation with curator and scholar Eric Slauter. Coffee Nation challenges traditional interpretations of the American Revolution, as coffee’s spectacular profitability in US markets and popularity on the new nation’s tables by the mid-nineteenth century was the antithesis of independence.
Annual Colonial History Program: “The Declaration of Independence.”
Discussants: Scholar/author Danielle Allen (Harvard University) and historian Scott Stephenson (Museum of the American Revolution), in partnership with Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois. The discussion will be followed by a book signing of Dr. Allen’s latest book, Radical Duke. Reproduction artifacts from the Museum of the American Revolution will be available for viewing, including a recreation of George Washington’s tent in Washington Square Park, located across the street from the Newberry’s main entrance.
Sharing the Spirit of America: A Statewide & National Reading of the Declaration of Independence
Gather with special guests, fellow visitors, and library staff for a live, simultaneous nationwide public reading of the Declaration of Independence with one and all in Chicago and across the country.
NewberryFest: 250 Years of the United States
Learn more about the history and legacy of the American Revolution by exploring our collection and try your own hand at historical calligraphy techniques. Celebrate all things Newberry with collection presentations, hands-on activities, tours, a mini used book sale, and so much more at this open house event.
Image: Declaration of Independence broadside, Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1776, VAULT Case broadside E221 .U57.
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The Newberry Library aims to inspire research and learning in the humanities and encourages conversations about important ideas through its extensive collection of rare and historical materials.
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Though Americans grappled with these issues in all times and places, nothing crystallized the tensions around liberty quite like war. President Abraham Lincoln, in his address at the newly dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery in the midst of the Civil War, centered his reflection on this very question: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” At the site of so much death and destruction, he wondered whether a nation, “so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.”
Conceived in Liberty: Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations in the Wartime US, 1812-1918 will draw on the Newberry’s collection to show how artists living through wartime “conceived” cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations that grappled with questions about liberty. These images appeared throughout broader print culture (newspapers, magazines, sheet music, broadsides, posters) as well as in more private contexts, such as diaries, letters, or sketchbooks. Whether patriotic or dissenting, available to the masses or only to a few, wartime imagery reveals in dramatic, visually compelling ways how the people of the US have used the occasion of war to question, revise, challenge, and champion this core value of the country since its founding 250 years ago.
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10:00am–2:00pm
At the Newberry – Ruggles Hall
Celebrate all things Newberry with collection presentations, hands-on activities, tours, a mini used book sale, and so much more at this open house event. This summer our theme is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
This program will be held in-person at the Newberry.
Join us for our summer NewberryFest, designed to help both new and returning visitors learn more about the Newberry. Learn more about the history and legacy of the American Revolution by exploring our collection and try your own hand at historical calligraphy techniques!
10:15am - Newberry101
11:00am - Screening of Faith and Freedom in America, by Ken Burns, followed by a discussion led by Free and Independent curator Eric Slauter
12:30pm to 2:00pm - try out new calligraphy techniques with the Chicago Calligraphy Collective
This program is free and open to all. Registration is optional to receive updates and reminders.
Step into the sharp, subversive world of satire, past and present, in this lively panel inspired by the Driehaus Museum’s exhibition Ink & Outrage: 18th-Century Satirical Prints in London & Dublin. Using the exhibition as a springboard, writers and contributors from The Onion and The New Yorker will bring the conversation into the present day, exploring how satire is crafted, circulated, and received in today’s fast-moving media landscape.
This discussion focuses on the enduring mechanics of satire, its targets, its techniques, and its cultural impact. Panelists will reflect on how their own practices echo (or diverge from) historical traditions, revealing how, in many ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Moderated by Colin Barr of the University of Notre Dame, whose scholarship bridges Irish and English history, the conversation offers audiences a unique opportunity to connect the incisive humor of the 18th century with the satirical voices shaping public discourse today. Whether you’re a longtime fan of contemporary satire or newly curious, this program invites you to see both past and present with fresh eyes.
About the Panelists
Colin Barr (Moderator) is professor of modern Irish history in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director of the Keough School’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Barr was born in Canada and raised in the United States. He holds a B.A. from Stonehill College and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and has held academic appointments in Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom. Barr’s work seeks to place the history of the island of Ireland and its peoples in the widest possible context, including that of the United Kingdom, the continent of Europe, the Roman Catholic Church and the global Irish Diaspora.
Tom Bachtell is a freelance cartoonist and caricaturist and illustrator. His distinctive drawings appeared in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section for 25 years, and he contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books. His work also appears in Politico and i-D Magazine. Tom illustrated Bag Man (Crown 2020) by Rachel Maddow, and recently published his first children’s book, The WhyBecause Book - Das Warum-Weil Buch in Germany (Tanja Langer 2025).
Mike Gillis is head writer for The Onion. He’s also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Tricycle, ClickHole, and the Supreme Court (in the form of a recent amicus brief in defense of parody and free speech).
Rob Knoll is a staff writer at The Onion. He has also written for the website ClickHole.
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