Newberry Minute: French Canadians in the Midwest / Matt Rutherford and Carla Zecher
Given the prominence and importance of the French Canadian communities in New England and Louisiana, we often forget that French Canadians played an important role in building and shaping the Midwest. Matt Rutherford and Carla Zecher, co-curators of the Newberry Library's Spotlight Exhibit, French Canadians in the Midwest, look at some of the documents from the Newberry's collection that remind us of the historically important role that the French Canadians played here.
The Spotlight Exhibit, French Canadians in the Midwest, will be on display from January 11 to March 12, 2011. For more information about the exhibit, please visit the Newberry Library's website at
Support for this Spotlight Exhibit generously provided by the Canadian Government and the Québec Délégation Chicago.
Ginosi Chicago Apartel Video : Chicago, Illinois, United States
Ginosi Chicago Apartel Video : Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Indigenous Metropolis: Chicago’s Urban Indians
Patricia Marroquin Norby, Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library, presents “Indigenous Metropolis: Chicago’s Urban Indians” at the Chicago History Museum. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Settlement and Immigration
This video concerning the topic of settlement and immigration, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: 1893 Chicago's World Fair, 1892-1895
This video concerning the topic of the 1893 Chicago's World Fair, 1892-1895, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Newberry Minute: Letters to Jemima Hall, 1836-1837 (Rodgers Family Papers) / Alison Hinderliter
Alison Hinderliter, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at the Newberry Library, discovered in some family papers letters sent in the 1830s from a slave to a freed slave, who happened to be husband and wife. Jemima Hall, born around 1810, lived with the Rodgers family in southern Illinois, and was freed some time between 1822 and 1836. In the letters, Jemima's husband, Washington, and her husband's master, L.F. Hall, implore her to return to Missouri to live with them. These letters suggest the countless stories that tell history from a entirely different vantage point that can be found in family collections like the Rodgers Family Papers.
Title: Washington Hall and L.F. Hall to Jemima Hall, 1836-1837 (Rodgers Family Papers)
Call Number: Midwest MS Rodgers, Box 1 Folder 15
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. W.F. Schweitzer (a Rodgers descendant), 1950, with subsequent donations
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Segregation and Public Education: Separate and Not Equal in 20th Century Chicago
This presentation and discussion, held as part of the Newberry's year-long city-wide conversation series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots, explored the legacy of the 1919 Chicago race riots through the lens of public education.
Paying special attention to the feedback loop between residential segregation and the uneven distribution of resources in Chicago's public education system, the speakers touched on a range of issues and ideas, including restorative justice, reclaiming history in the classroom, and activism.
Separate and Not Equal in 20th Century Chicago was held June 1, 2019, at the Harold Washington Library as part of Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots.
Speakers:
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s
Jen Johnson, Chief of Staff at Chicago Teacher's Union and Former CPS History Teacher
Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry
Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Race and Ethnicity
This video concerning the topic of race and ethnicity, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Political Development
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Immigration, Labor, and Politics, 1878-1884
This video concerning the topic of Immigration, Labor, and Politics, 1878-1884, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Illinois in the Guilded Age, 1866-1896: Law and Society
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: The Chicago Fire, 1869-1872
This video concerning the topic of The Chicago Fire, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Women's Experience and Gender Roles
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Economic Development
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Haymarket and Hull House, 1884-1891
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The Encyclopedia of Chicago Hardcover Book by James R. Grossman
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The Encyclopedia of Chicago Hardcover – October 15, 2004
by James R. Grossman (Editor), Ann Durkin Keating (Editor), Janice L. Reiff (Editor)
One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle of modern architecture, the freight hub of the nation, a city built on slaughterhouses and cacophonous financial trading tempered by some of the finest cultural institutions in the world. While many histories have been written of the city, none can claim the scope and breadth of the long-awaited Encyclopedia of Chicago.
Developed by the Newberry Library with the cooperation of the Chicago Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Chicago is the definitive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago. More than a decade in the making, the Encyclopedia brings together hundreds of historians, journalists, and experts on everything from airlines to Zoroastrians to explore all aspects of the rich world of Chicagoland, from its geological prehistory to the present.
The main alphabetical section of the Encyclopedia, comprising more than 1,400 entries, covers the full range of Chicago's neighborhoods, suburbs, and ethnic groups, as well as the city's cultural institutions, technology and science, architecture, religions, immigration, transportation, business history, labor, music, health and medicine, and hundreds of other topics. The Encyclopedia has the widest geographical reach of any city encyclopedia of its kind, encompassing eight of the region's counties, including suburbs. Nearly 400 thumbnail maps pinpoint Chicago neighborhoods and suburban municipalities; these maps are complemented by hundreds of black-and-white and color photographs and thematic maps that bring the history of metropolitan Chicago to life. Additionally, contributors have provided lengthy interpretive essays—woven into the alphabetical section but set off graphically—that take a long view of such topics as the built environment, literary images of Chicago, and the city's often legendary and passionate sports culture.
The Encyclopedia also offers a comprehensive biographical dictionary of more than 2,000 individuals important to Chicago history and a detailed listing of approximately 250 of the city's historically significant business enterprises. A color insert features a timeline of Chicago history and photo essays exploring nine pivotal years in this history.
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is one of the most significant historical projects undertaken in the last twenty years, and it has everything in it to engage the most curious historian as well as settle the most boisterous barroom dispute. If you think you know how Chicago got its name, if you have always wondered how the Chicago Fire actually started and how it spread, if you have ever marveled at the Sears Tower or the reversal of the Chicago River—if you have affection, admiration, and appreciation for this City of the Big Shoulders, this Wild Onion, this Urbs in Horto, then The Encyclopedia of Chicago is for you.
Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (About this soundlisten), locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/), officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the nation.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century.[7] After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild.[8] The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world.[9] Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.[10][11]
Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Religion and Culture
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: War's Aftermath, 1866-1869
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Labor
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: The Great Strike, 1877
This video concerning the topic of the Great Strike, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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