As a complement to the Recent Acquistions exhibit at the Newberry Library:
Saturday, March 15, 1:30 pm
Speaker: Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library
Why was the Union Army's 7th Iowa called the "Grey Beard Regiment"? How can you recreate a dance from the Court of Louis XIV? Why would the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies partner with the Newberry Library to acquire a book written by a Franciscan friar in the middle ages? How did a collection of colorful Pennsylvania baptismal records end up in Germany? The George A. Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Collection Development Librarian answers these and other questions in an illustrated overview of the Newberry Library's acquisitions since 2001.
At 2 pm on the following Saturdays, tours of the Newberry Recent Acquisitions exhibit will be presented by the curators, librarians, and archivists who build the collections:
March 22: John Brady, Director of Reader Services - Bibliographer of Americana
March 29: Martha Briggs, Lloyd Lewis Curator of Midwest Manuscripts
April 19: Paul F. Gehl, Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing
April 26: Jack Simpson, Curator of Local and Family History
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
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| John Hamilton |
Wednesday, April 16, 6 pm
Speakers: John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State University, and Richard C. Longworth, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Edward Price Bell (1869–1943) invented the job of foreign correspondent when he opened the London bureau of the Chicago Daily News in 1900. The autobiography of this once widely-known and highly respected foreign correspondent lay unpublished in the Newberry Library until John Maxwell Hamilton and Jaci Cole edited and published it as part of a series of memoirs and books by pioneering foreign correspondents. Following remarks on Bell, Hamilton will join Richard C. Longworth, prize-winning Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent for 20 years, for a conversation about how the roles and responsibilities of the foreign correspondent have changed from Bell’s time to ours and what, if anything, has remained the same.
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| Richard Longworth |
Journalism of the Highest Realm: The Memoir of Edward Price Bell, Pioneering Foreign Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News by John Maxwell Hamilton and Jaci Cole, and Richard C. Longworth's new book Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism will be available for purchase at the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore. Book signings will follow the program.
This program is co-sponsored by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
Wednesday, June 11, 6:00 pm
Speaker: Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Although it was little used during the American Civil War - the time in which it was invented - the Gatling gun soon changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging two hundred shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, a man of great business and scientific acumen, actually proposed his gun as a way of saving lives, thinking it would decrease the size of armies and, therefore, make it easier to supply soldiers and reduce malnutrition deaths. The scientists who unleashed America's atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way.
In Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun's invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. She also shows how the gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplified the paradox of America's rise as a world superpower.
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel will be available for sale at the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore. A book signing will follow the talk.
Admission is free. No reservation is required. For more information, call the McClurg Bookstore at (312) 255-3520.
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Julia Sniderman Bachrach and Jo Ann Nathan |
Saturday, June 14, 11:00 am
Speakers: Julia Sniderman Bachrach, Chicago Park District, and Jo Ann Nathan, Jens Jensen Legacy Project
Often referred to as "landscape art under glass," Jens Jensen's revolutionary 1908 design of the Garfield Park Conservatory is a poetic interpretation of his beloved Midwestern landscape as he imaged it in prehistoric times. The Conservatory is at the center of a larger story: how nature, urban design, and horticulture helped to shape one of Chicago's most interesting neighborhoods. The co-authors are the historian of the Chicago Park District and the consulting landscape historian and director of the Jens Jensen Legacy Project. Their centennial history covers everything from the history of the conservatory and Garfield Park to the revival of the surrounding community.
Inspired by Nature will be available for sale at the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore. A book signing will follow the talk.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
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| Sally A. Kitt Chappell |
Saturday, July 12, 11:00 am
Speaker: Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Historian Sally A. Kitt Chappell sees Chicago in the forefront of global efforts to end the divide between town and country by bringing into harmony buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure. In Chicago's Urban Nature, she provides new insights into such historic Chicago sites as Jens Jensen's Garfield Park Conservatory and Frederick Law Olmsted's Jackson Park. Then she takes us to innovative contemporary green spaces they influenced, from City Hall's rooftop garden to the North Lawndale Green Youth Farm and the new Millennium Park. The sixty-six beautiful spaces described in the guidebook meld art, architecture, and ecology. Far more than retreats - they're now essential parts of the cultural life of the modern city.
Chicago's Urban Nature will be for sale at the Newberry Library's A. C. McClurg Bookstore. A book signing will follow the talk.
Admission is free. No reservation is required.
The Newberry Library
Center for Public Programs
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
telephone: (312) 255-3700
fax: (312) 255-3680
e-mail: programs@newberry.org