Online class that starts June 26 👇

Check out our Adult Education classes - 34 summer classes now live! From Dostoevsky to Ben Franklin to Jesse Jackson, and Wagner. Registration opens to all 5/22. Visit Newberry.org and make your summer education plans now. #adulteducation #continuingeducation

Opening June 20 📰

Undergraduate seminar students presented their papers today! Topic: Medicines, Poisons, and Landscapes of Care in the Early Americas. The seminar brings together students from four area institutions and is taught by Loyola University Chicago profs Kat Lecky and Josefrayn Sanchez Perry.

Pulitzer winning poet Jericho Brown joins poet Robyn Schiff in conversation 5/9 w StoryStudio Chicago and Writers on Writing. We look forward to this free event. Go to newberry.org and click Calendar to register!

Today is Independent Bookstore Day AND the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl! Head to the Newberry Bookshop to browse our selection of fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, children's books, pre-loved books, stationary, and more! #ChiLovesBooks #TeamIndie #IndependentBookstoreDay

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day AND the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl! Come see Jennifer in the Newberry Bookshop and show all your local booksellers some love. :) #ChiLovesBooks chilovebooks.com/independent-bo…

The Newberry honored former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, left, for her contributions to the humanities April 19. Faust joined our President and Librarian, Astrida Orle Tantillo, for a far-ranging discussion on the Civil Rights movement, the role of archives, and more.

IL State Historical Records Advisory Board at Newberry Library today to view work their grants funded to preserve historical content. Result: Eastland Disaster Collection now online. tinyurl.com/sskj5ba8
#EastlandDisaster #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoMaritime #25thyear #edhs25years

🏈 The Flapper and the Quarterback, an American ballet featuring Ruth Page and Paul Du Pont, photo by Eugene Hutchinson, 1926, that made its debut in Chicago.

(In honor of the Bears' likely choice of a QB tonight.)

Call number: Dance MS Page, Box 131, Folder 1838

#NFLDraft

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His Pulitzer for The Tradition put Jericho Brown in the canon of American literature. Brown joins us in conversation 5/9 w StoryStudio Chicago - get a glimpse behind the creative curtain and celebrate the written word.

Available in-person and on Zoom ➡️
newberry.org/calendar/write…

NEH announces $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects across the U.S.

Grants will support exhibitions, films, digitization of historic collections, sustainability projects at museums & archives, advanced research, & programs in higher ed. tinyurl.com/5fpch689

#NEHgrant

The NEH awarded the Newberry a grant to digitize more than 2,000 rare books and manuscripts documenting languages spoken or formerly spoken by the Indigenous peoples of North and Central America. Read more about this project, its background & goals: newberry.org/news/newberry-…

We had the pleasure of welcoming former Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust last week, prior to the Newberry Award Dinner. Drew met with the Newberry's Will Hansen and President Astrida Orle Tantillo for a tour of our historic building and a presentation of collection materials.

What A Colorful World!

From a Matthew Seutter atlas, 18th c. Newberry Library (Case oversize G1007 .81)
#EarthDay2024

Such a wonderful roundtable on Friday ⁦Newberry Library⁩ Irish Studies Seminar ⁦Colleen English⁩ ⁦Keelin Burke⁩.Thanks ⁦Caoilinn Hughes⁩ ⁦Leah Flack⁩ ⁦Kate McCabe⁩ , Rebecca Johns Trissler Culture_Ireland⁩ for the fantastic discussion!

What an honor it is to be with Newberry Library this evening, receiving the Newberry Library Award. Thank you for this recognition!

A few weeks ago WBEZ came to check out our current exhibition, A Night at Mister Kelly's, and you should too! Relive a night on the town in the mid-twentieth century.
wbez.org/stories/mister…

It Has POCKETS!

This 18th c. calendar definitely dressed to impress.
Newberry Library i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Catherine Curzon

TWO new books out today!

Good Boys, Bad Hombres by Michael Singh: On the unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys.

Indigenous Archival Activism by Rose Miron (@NewberryLibrary): Asks: Who has the right to represent Native history?

#NewBooks