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Professor Gates is a filmmaker and scholar who hosts the PBS program “Finding Your Roots.”
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A book by Rose Miron, Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry, has been recognized by the National Council on Public History.
Materials documenting the activities of the Chicago NAACP chapter now available online.
“Beyond Belief” project will feature faith traditions and social movements in the pivotal 1960s.
Rose Miron previously served as Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies.
A collection of sermons by sixteenth-century Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún is rare example from the Nahuas.
Newly digitized map collection makes over 750 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps available online.
The $25,000 prize is open to a range of genres, including history, biography, social sciences, poetry, drama, graphic novels, and fiction.
Nearly 100 oral histories amassed over eight years will complement the Newberry’s robust dance collection.