Dispatches from the Newberry stacks, where millions of historic items are ready to be discovered—and blogged about.
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New graphic novel “Paper Cuts” featured in “Indigenous Chicago” exhibition.
The Mike Royko Papers contain an awful lot of objects whose basic details were...fuzzy, to say the least.
Newberry collection items offer glimpses into the last century of LGBTQ+ history.
In the early modern period, the divisive line between "real" and "fake" wasn't as solidified in the way we think of it now.
In the tumultuous 1960s, comic evolved during his appearances at famed night spot.
In 1990, 12-year-old Brian thought he'd found a great deal on a Nolan Ryan rookie card... He didn't realize it would land him in...
Midge Dellinger, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, shares her connection to an image featured in the Newberry’s Indigenous Portraits Unbound exhibition—and her ongoing efforts to collect...
Yale PhD candidate and prison education instructor takes "pop-up Newberry" to incarcerated students.
The "Godfather of Bronzeville's" papers provide valuable information about community activism and private life.
Uncovering the connection between a fifteenth-century engraving and a lute manuscript produced thirty years later.
Crisis was a setback for work that appears in Indigenous Portraits Unbound exhibition.