A New Religious America: How a "Christian...
A 1630 edition of the King James Bible
Treasures of Faith
29th Annual Newberry Book Fair
Board Chair Victoria J. Herget Presents The Newberry Award to David McCullough
The Newberry Honors David McCullough, Exceeds $25...
A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation : "Out of Many: Religious Pluralism in America" Lecture
Wednesday 6/26

“The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world,” writes Diana Eck in her pathbreaking work “A New Religious America.” After the Immigration Act of 1965 eliminated the quotas linking immigration to national origins, diverse peoples from across the globe have come to call America home.

A 1630 edition of the King James Bible
A 1630 edition of the King James Bible, Gift of the McCormick Theological Seminary, Cataloged and Conserved by a Grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation
Treasures of Faith

This Newberry Spotlight exhibition features more than 40 books on religion that date from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. “Treasures of Faith: Twenty Years of Acquisitions” showcases extraordinary examples from the more than 8,000 religious volumes the Newberry has acquired over the past two decades. The exhibition runs through July 6.

29th Annual Newberry Book Fair
Thursday 7/25 to Sunday 7/28

Join us for Chicago’s favorite used book binge and browse more than 120,000 used books in more than 70 categories, most priced at $2 and under. Take home cookbooks, paperback mysteries and romances, histories, biographies, travel books, collectibles, and much more. This is a Chicago event not to be missed. Admission is free and all proceeds support the Newberry.

Board Chair Victoria J. Herget Presents The Newberry Award to David McCullough
Board Chair Victoria J. Herget Presents The Newberry Award to David McCullough
The Newberry Honors David McCullough, Exceeds $25 Million Campaign Goal

What a night for Chicago’s Newberry.

Before a crowd of more than 400 people that included Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago-area teachers and students, Newberry Board of Trustees Chair Victoria J. Herget presented The Newberry Library Award to renowned historian David McCullough. But before doing so she had another announcement: the Newberry has exceeded its $25 million fundraising campaign goal.

Core Collections

Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio.

Maps, Travel, and Exploration

The Newberry houses an extraordinary collection of over 500,000 maps and sources relating to the history and culture of travel.

Klaus Stopp, Printed birth and baptismal certificates.

Religion

The Newberry collection for religion focuses on sources from Europe and the Americas, from the late Middle Ages through the early 20th century.

Visitation, from the Heures de Nostre Dame selonc lusaige de Rome.

Manuscripts and Archives

The Newberry has a rich collection of manuscripts ranging from medieval Books of Hours to twentieth-century scrapbooks and letters.

Gramhart, Allemodisch Stambuch, Newberry Wing ZP 647. R755, f.15r.

Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies

A collection rich in printed and manuscript sources from 1300 to 1800, with strengths in Western Europe and the Americas.

From the Stacks

John Adams Letter

John Adams

In the early spring of 1788, John Adams returned from Europe, where he’d spent a decade conducting diplomatic business. He arrived in Massachusetts at a seminal moment; he was stateside, acclimating to his Braintree home, when the U.S. Constitution was formally ratified.

May Day

Adolph Fischer

This bilingual broadside, written by labor activist Adolph Fischer, calls on “workingmen” to attend a rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. In the demonstration’s aftermath, eight anarchists (including Fischer) were unfairly accused of slaying police officers. An openly biased judge sentenced seven of these defendants—known as the Haymarket martyrs—to death; the eighth was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1887, four were executed, after one committed suicide.