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Karla Scherer Center

@SchererCenter

for the Study of American Culture @UChicago

 Hyde Park, Chicago
americanculture.uchicago.edu
Joined May 2017
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Lincoln Presidential Library@ALPLM6 Mar 2018
Today's Illinois Bicentennial Minute: Thirty years after becoming a state, Illinois approves a constitution banning slavery. #ILhistory #IL200 #IllinoisProud ow.ly/Lti630iM0ON
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The University of Chicago@UChicago21 Aug 2017
#UChiclipse viewed over @Rockefeller_Chi while Total Eclipse of the Heart played on carillon
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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary18 Aug 2017
#FlashbackFriday to the @UChicago 1945 #SolarEclipse Expedition via the @UChicagoSCRC photo archive: bit.ly/1945Eclipse Safe viewing!
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UChicagoPress@UChicagoPress12 Jul 2017
Happy 200th, Henry David Thoreau! Your work is still as alive and important as ever.
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New guide to the papers of minister, theologian, and #civilrights #activist Robert W. Spike now online: lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/find…
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Why did US ice cream consumption increase 55% in 1916-1945? A tale of #foodhistory & the 18th amendment on #AHAToday bit.ly/2b8nEsi
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South Side Weekly@SouthSideWeekly22 Jun 2017
The Weekly is seeking contributors and neighborhood coordinators for our big annual Best of the South Side issue docs.google.com/document/d/1…
BoSS 2017 Neighborhood Coordinators Call

BoSS 2017 Neighborhood Coordinators Call

South Side Weekly Seeks Neighborhood Coordinators for Best of the South Side The South Side Weekly’s biggest issue of the year is the Best of the South Side issue, which comes out in late September....

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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary19 Jun 2017
Learn more about the history of #Juneteenth using the resources on our African American Studies research guide: guides.lib.uchicago.edu/afra…

Library Guides: Black Studies: Home

Library Guides: Black Studies: Home

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The New Yorker
@NewYorker22 Jun 2017
Many definitive images of the past half century were taken by Magnum photographers—even if we never knew their names nyer.cm/6YDjVY0
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The Paris Review
@parisreview11 Jun 2017
“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” —James Baldwin theparisreview.org/interview…
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Escape Into Life@EscapeIntoLife2 Jun 2017
Book Discussion: “The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent” 6/10 @SeminaryCoOp Hyde Park #Chicago #books
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Happy Birthday to Kanye West today! Come by #Murakami to see some of the artwork from #Graduation.
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Soldiers weren't alone in suffering trauma during #WWI. Women did too, but their experiences were often marginalized bit.ly/2rESPCo
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Chicago Public Library@chipublib2 Jun 2017
Take the #SgtPepper50 poll! "Lucy in the Sky with 💎" is catching up to "With a Little Help from My Friends." ow.ly/raT130cgcWn
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Chicagoist@Chicagoist1 Jun 2017
Video: A Deer Went Swimming In Lake Michigan & Now We've Seen Everything chicagoist.com/2017/06/01/de…
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@NPR29 May 2017
Even Gwendolyn Brooks' grocery lists were poetry, noting items like "bright, pearlescent, ruby tomatoes." n.pr/2rfUG0S
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Black Perspectives@BlkPerspectives22 May 2017
Today on @BlkPerspectives: A Case for Reparations at University of Chicago - @ashfin @GuyEmersonMount Caine & Kai bit.ly/2qNJkig
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SchomburgCenter@SchomburgCenter22 May 2017
Our NEW Power in Print exhibition, exploring the art of the Black Power movement poster. Check it out: ow.ly/qyvk30bU4rN
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Newberry Library@NewberryLibrary22 May 2017
Homemade #novel by 12-yr-old boy in 1790s reflects author's wild imagination, & also the genre in its own adolescent stage of development.
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The Paris Review
@parisreview19 May 2017
“You should know more about human nature every year of your life.” —Norman Mailer bit.ly/1KbAYlR
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