Dispatches from the Newberry stacks, where millions of historic items are ready to be discovered—and blogged about.
Blog—Source Material
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.
As the year comes to a close, it is time to review the five most popular Newberry collection items of 2023.
Maps of movement show us the past how it was and how it was imagined.
Faced with a collection of eighteenth-century tiny books in need of new housing, Conservation Technician Gabriel Hamer designs inventive new boxes to store and...
Exhibition items show undeniable presence of race in medieval Europe.
Providing Nahua, other community members with access to vast range of Newberry materials.