A New Religious America: How a "Christian...
A 1630 edition of the King James Bible
Treasures of Faith
Board Chair Victoria J. Herget Presents The Newberry Award to David McCullough
The Newberry Honors David McCullough, Exceeds $25...
29th Annual Newberry Book Fair
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.

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.

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.

Core Collections

Manuel Rodriguez. Compendio Geografico, c. 1768.

Genealogy and Local History

The Newberry has been actively collecting genealogy and local history materials since 1887.

Driscoll Series 17, Box 349, Chut Pas de Bruit, 1912

Music

The Newberry collects on western European music to the early 20th century, American music to the mid-20th, and on musical life in Chicago.

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.

E.H. Burbank, Chief Pretty Eagle (Crow). St. Xavier, MT, 1897.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies

As a collection of Americana, the Edward E. Ayer Collection is one of the best in the country and one of the strongest collections on American Indians.

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.