This program will be held in-person at the Newberry. Confined to a tuberculosis sanitarium, Rhoda corresponds with Jerry, a left-wing Jewish bookseller. Their letters reveal that…

In 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition took place in Chicago, Grover Cleveland started his second non-consecutive term as president, and the Newberry building opened to the pub…

At the beginning of Shakespeare’s play Richard III, Richard, alone on stage states that “I am determinèd to prove a villain.” And so he does—murdering any who stand in his way wit…