Karla Scherer Center

Today's Illinois Bicentennial Minute: Thirty years after becoming a state, Illinois approves a constitution banning slavery. #ILhistory #IL200 #IllinoisProud ow.ly/Lti630iM0ON

#UChiclipse viewed over @Rockefeller_Chi while Total Eclipse of the Heart played on carillon

#FlashbackFriday to the @UChicago 1945 #SolarEclipse Expedition via the @UChicagoSCRC photo archive: bit.ly/1945Eclipse Safe viewing!

Happy 200th, Henry David Thoreau! Your work is still as alive and important as ever.

The groundbreaking scholarship of @UChicagoHum faculty (& those from other #UChicago divisions) is vital to our work at the #SchererCenter! twitter.com/uchicagohum/st…

New guide to the papers of minister, theologian, and #civilrights #activist Robert W. Spike now online: lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/finding…

Why did US ice cream consumption increase 55% in 1916-1945? A tale of #foodhistory & the 18th amendment on #AHAToday bit.ly/2b8nEsi

The Weekly is seeking contributors and neighborhood coordinators for our big annual Best of the South Side issue docs.google.com/document/d/1vD…

Learn more about the history of #Juneteenth using the resources on our African American Studies research guide: guides.lib.uchicago.edu/afram

Many definitive images of the past half century were taken by Magnum photographers—even if we never knew their names nyer.cm/6YDjVY0

😱How do we get one of these?! #UChicago #SummerStyle twitter.com/christiehenry/…

“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” —James Baldwin theparisreview.org/interviews/299…

Book Discussion: “The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent” 6/10 @SeminaryCoOp Hyde Park #Chicago #books

Happy Birthday to Kanye West today! Come by #Murakami to see some of the artwork from #Graduation.

Soldiers weren't alone in suffering trauma during #WWI. Women did too, but their experiences were often marginalized bit.ly/2rESPCo

Take the #SgtPepper50 poll! "Lucy in the Sky with 💎" is catching up to "With a Little Help from My Friends." ow.ly/raT130cgcWn

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

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