Past Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Topics
- 2007: "Constructing the Queen: Elizabeth I in Political Pamphlets, Poetry, Personal Correspondence, Potraiture, Plays, Pulp Fiction, and Motion Pictures." Regina Buccola (Literature and Languages, Roosevelt University) and Celeste Chamberland (History, Roosevelt University)
- 2006: "West Meets East: Exchange between Asia and Europe, 1500-1800." Ellen McClure (French, University of Illinois at Chicago) and Laura Hostetler (History, University of Illinois at Chicago).
- 2005: "Sites of Democracy and Difference: U.S. Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1880-1930." Anne Brigham (English and women's studies, Roosevelt University) and Lewis Erenberg (History, Loyola University).
- 2004: "New Nation, New Culture: American Culture in the Early Republic, 1770-1850." Douglas Bradburn (history, Roosevelt University) and Lawrence Howe (English, Roosevelt University).
- 2003: "Constructing the Queen: Elizabeth I." Regina Buccola (English, Roosevelt University) and Robert Bucholz (History, Loyola University).
- 2002: "The Pan-Hispanic World, 1492-1825." Glen Carman (Spanish, DePaul University) and Valentina Tikoff (history, DePaul University).
- 2001: "Experiencing the Civil War." Robin Grey (English, University of Illinois at Chicago) and Margaret Storey (history, DePaul University).
- 2000: "London Town and Bath Spa: Two Constructions of Eighteenth-Century Urbanity." Robert Bucholz (history, Loyola University) and Caryn Chaden (English, DePaul University).
- 1999: "Mapping Identities: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Configurations in Modernist Representation." Pamela Caughie (English and women's studies, Loyola University) and Ayana Karanja (black world studies, Loyola University).
- 1998: "New Nation, New Culture: America in the Age of the Early Republic, 1770-1850." John Burton (history and education, DePaul University) and Lawrence Howe (English, Roosevelt University).
- 1997: "Competing Landscapes in the Struggle for an American National Identity." Robin Grey (English, University of Illinois at Chicago) and David Sokol (history of architecture and art, University of Illinois at Chicago).