for the Study of American Culture @UChicago

Joined May 2017
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Karla Scherer Center retweeted
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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#UChiclipse viewed over @Rockefeller_Chi while Total Eclipse of the Heart played on carillon
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#FlashbackFriday to the @UChicago 1945 #SolarEclipse Expedition via the @UChicagoSCRC photo archive: bit.ly/1945Eclipse Safe viewing!
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Happy 200th, Henry David Thoreau! Your work is still as alive and important as ever.
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The groundbreaking scholarship of @UChicagoHum faculty (& those from other #UChicago divisions) is vital to our work at the #SchererCenter! x.com/uchicagohum/status/879…

Faculty Bookshelf—newly released books by our faculty in spring 2017 humanities.uchicago.edu/arti…
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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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Learn more about the history of #Juneteenth using the resources on our African American Studies research guide: guides.lib.uchicago.edu/afra…
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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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“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” —James Baldwin theparisreview.org/interview…

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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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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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Victory Gardens were symbolic & tactical during WWII - are backyard gardens a new way to #resist Trump? via @modfarm modernfarmer.com/2016/10/bac…

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Video: A Deer Went Swimming In Lake Michigan & Now We've Seen Everything chicagoist.com/2017/06/01/de…
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