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Guided Exhibition Tour: "Conceived in Liberty"

Free and open to all; no registration required.

Jun 20, 2026

1:00pm–2:00pm

At the Newberry – Trienens Galleries

Join us for a guided tour of "Conceived in Liberty: Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations in the Wartime US, 1812–1918," where you'll explore how artists cheered, critiqued, and satirized the country’s commitment to liberty in magazine illustrations, caricatures, editorial cartoons, sheet music covers, broadsides, and posters. This tour will highlight how these images reveal the diverse, inspiring, and contradictory ways that liberty has been conceived and realized by the people of the United States.

Thomas Nast (1840–1902), The Copperhead Party-in Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace!, New York: Harper’s Weekly Magazine, February 28, 1863