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The research library received a Mellon Foundation grant to expand access to its vast Indigenous collections, including ...

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I am no longer young. Neither is the Newberry Library. But both of us cherish tradition for its inherent warmth, its organic elegance and its embrace of the best of what has always been. However, the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A team of researchers from Oklahoma has been in Chicago all week at the Newberry Library on the near North Side on a mission to rediscover old stories about the Cherokee Nation. A week ...

The Newberry Library has awarded Dawn Turner, author of “Three Girls from Bronzeville,” $25,000 as the recipient of the first-ever Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award. The award aims to ...

On a chilly March evening while out for a walk with his dog Sparky on the North Side, Robert Miller came upon some books scattered on the sidewalk. Even in the dim light, Miller could see that these ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A number of African American women travelled the country and took on challenging work during the difficult Jim Crow era. But they were overshadowed by the Black men who worked for the ...

Chicago — The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library ...

Officials at the Newberry Library, the Chicago research institution that was slapped on the wrist by the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this week, have openly disagreed with the ...