Starting next summer, The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award at the Newberry Library will celebrate a publication that transforms public understanding of Chicago, its history, and its people.

In Sweet Bitter Love, now open at the Newberry, new work by Jeffrey Gibson responds to 19th-century representations of Native people in the Newberry collection.

Sometime in the first half of the 18th century, a group of Nahua people from Zempoala (in the Mexican state of Hidalgo) resisted Spanish rule and asserted their rights in a document known as the Codex Zempoala.

¡Viva la Libertad! is a series of public programs bringing together scholars, writers, artists, and community members to explore the independence struggles of the Americas and reflect on their legacies today.