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The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities. It is located in Chicago, Illinois , and has been free and open to the public since 1887. The Newberry fosters a deeper understanding of our world by inspiring research and learning in the humanities and encouraging conversations about ideas that matter.
The center’s main focus within the Newberry Library’s collections is the extensive materials acquired by Edward Ayer, including the commissioned portraits by Elbridge Ayer Burbank. The center coordinates annual seminars, workshops and conferences, and provides fellowships for continuing research.
The ASEH/ Newberry Library Fellowship supports PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars for one month in residency to do research at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The Samuel P. Hays Research Fellowship supports travel to a manuscript repository for research. The Hal Rothman Dissertation Fellowship supports archival research and travel.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Documentary Workshop Fellowship, "Native American Autobiography," 1992. Kansas Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1991. One award every two years to a poet in Kansas, at that time commonly referred to as the “poet laureate” for Kansas. $5000.
Librarian. Awards. Rhodes Scholarship (1918) Distinguished Nevadan (1958) Stanley McCrory Pargellis (June 25, 1898 – January 6, 1968) was an American historian and librarian. His work as a historian focused mainly on the military history of the American colonial era. From 1942 to 1962, he was director of the Newberry Library in Chicago .
David Spadafora is a historian of European thought, specializing in the 18th century Enlightenment. He was the 8th President of the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, and prior to that a professor at Lake Forest College. He served as president of Lake Forest College from 1993 to 2001. [1]
Julie L. Reed is a historian of Native American History, with an emphasis on Southeastern Indians and Cherokee History, as well as American Education. She is currently an associate professor in History at Penn State University. [1] She is also a member of the Cherokee Nation and has focused her research mainly on Cherokee Nation history and ...
In 1987 Burkhart received an American Philosophical Society Fellowship grant to conduct archival research in Madrid. Other fellowships and research grants obtained during the late 1980s include ones from Chicago's Newberry Library , a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the John Carter Brown Library , and a fellowship in pre ...