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 * Shimer College
 * History of Shimer College
 * Shimer College academics
 * List of Shimer College people

History

 * History of Shimer College
 * Mount Carroll Seminary (1853-1896)
 * Frances Shimer School (1896-1949)
 * History of Shimer College 1950-1965
 * History of Shimer College 1966-1978
 * History of Shimer College in Waukegan
 * History of Shimer College in Chicago

Leaders

 * Frances Shimer (Frances Wood, Frances Wood Shimer)
 * Cinderella Gregory
 * William Parker McKee ("Dean")
 * Floyd Cleveland Wilcox
 * A. Beth Hostetter
 * Raymond B. Culver
 * Albin C. Bro
 * John E. Russel
 * A. J. Brumbaugh
 * Milburn P. Akers
 * Robert S. Long
 * F.J. Mullin
 * Esther Weinstein
 * Ralph Conant
 * Donald P. Moon
 * William Craig Rice
 * Ronald Champagne
 * Thomas Lindsay
 * Ed Noonan

Alums

 * see Shimer College

Trustees, donors and power brokers

 * Andrew Carnegie
 * Samuel J. Campbell
 * Barre Seid
 * Barry Carroll
 * Young Kim
 * Henry Metcalf
 * William Rainey Harper

Places

 * Mount Carroll, Illinois
 * Waukegan, Illinois
 * Illinois Institute of Technology
 * Bronzeville
 * Oxford, England

The Core

 * Shimer College academics

Curricular thinkers and principles

 * Mortimer Adler
 * Robert Maynard Hutchins
 * Alexander Meiklejohn
 * Hutchins Plan
 * Great Books
 * Core curriculum

Authors and readings

 * Edwin Abbott
 * Flatland
 * Aeschylus
 * Oresteia
 * Anselm of Canterbury (Hum 3)
 * Hannah Arendt (Soc 3)
 * Thomas Aquinas (Soc 2, IS 5)
 * Aristotle
 * Nichomachean Ethics
 * Physics (Aristotle)
 * Politics (Aristotle)
 * Posterior Analytics
 * Rudolf Arnheim (Hum 1)
 * Matthew Arnold (Hum 4)
 * Augustine
 * City of God
 * Confessions of St. Augustine
 * Marcus Aurelius (IS 5)
 * Amedeo Avogadro (NS 1)
 * Francis Bacon
 * New Organon
 * Honoré de Balzac
 * Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu
 * Simone de Beauvoir (Soc 3)
 * Samuel Beckett (Hum 2)
 * Ruth Benedict
 * Patterns of Culture
 * Roberto Bonola
 * Non-Euclidean geometry (on subject, not text)
 * Robert Boyle (NS 1)
 * Martin Buber
 * I and Thou
 * Stanislao Cannizzaro (NS 1)
 * Miguel de Cervantes (IS 6)
 * Geoffrey Chaucer (IS 5)
 * Constitution of the United States
 * Grosvenor W. Cooper (Hum 1)
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
 * Aaron Copland (Hum 1)
 * Dante Alighieri (IS 5)
 * John Dalton (NS 1)
 * Charles Darwin
 * Origin of Species
 * Descent of Man
 * Rene Descartes
 * Rules for the Direction of the Mind
 * Discourse on Method
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * The Brothers Karamazov
 * Crime and Punishment
 * C.F. du Fay (NS 3)
 * Émile Durkheim (Soc 1, Soc 4)
 * W.E.B. DuBois (Soc 1)
 * Pierre DuLong (NS 1)
 * Freeman Dyson (NS 4)
 * Albert Einstein (IS 2, NS 3)
 * Relativity
 * Euclid (IS 2)
 * Euclid's Elements
 * Richard Feynman (NS 4)
 * Michel Foucault (Soc 4)
 * Benjamin Franklin (NS 3)
 * Paulo Freire (Soc 4)
 * Augustin-Jean Fresnel (NS 3)
 * Sigmund Freud (Soc 1, Soc 3)
 * Galileo Galilei (IS 6, NS 3)
 * George Gamow (NS 4)
 * Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (NS 1)
 * Clifford Geertz (Soc 4)
 * Carol Gilligan (Soc 1)
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (IS 6)
 * Jane Goodall (NS 2)
 * Stephen Jay Gould (NS 2)
 * Kurt Gödel
 * Gödel's incompleteness theorems
 * Alexander Hamilton
 * Federalist Papers
 * G.W.F. Hegel
 * Philosophy of Right
 * Werner Heisenberg (NS 4)
 * Herodotus (IS 5)
 * The Histories of Herodotus
 * Hesiod (IS 5)
 * Theogony
 * Thomas Hobbes
 * Leviathan (book)
 * Homer
 * Odyssey
 * Iliad
 * David Hume (IS 6)
 * Christiaan Huygens (NS 3)
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * United States Declaration of Independence
 * James Prescott Joule (NS 1)
 * Franz Kafka
 * A Hunger Artist
 * Immanuel Kant (Hum 4, IS 6)
 * Johannes Kepler (IS 6)
 * Søren Kierkegaard (Hum 4)
 * Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Letter from Birmingham Jail
 * Lawrence Kohlberg (Soc 1)
 * Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (NS 2)
 * Susanne K. Langer (Hum 4)
 * Antoine Lavoisier (NS 1)
 * John Locke (Soc 2, Hum 3)
 * Konrad Lorenz (NS 2)
 * Lucretius (NS 1)
 * Martin Luther (IS 5)
 * Niccolò Machiavelli (Soc 2)
 * Karl Mannheim (Soc 4)
 * Lynn Margulis (NS 4)
 * Karl Marx (Soc 1, Soc 3, IS 6)
 * James Clerk Maxwell (NS 3)
 * Gregor Mendel (NS 2)
 * John Milton (IS 6)
 * Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (Soc 2)
 * Thomas More (IS 5)
 * Isaac Newton (NS 3)
 * Friedrich Nietzsche (Hum 4, IS 6)
 * Hans Christian Ørsted (NS 3)
 * Blaise Pascal (NS 1, Hum 3)
 * Jean Piaget (Soc 1)
 * Plato
 * Meno
 * Plato's Republic
 * Joseph Priestley (NS 1)
 * Ptolemy (IS 5)
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Soc 2)
 * Dorion Sagan (NS 4)
 * Sappho (IS 5)
 * Jean-Paul Sartre (Soc 3)
 * Friedrich Schiller (Hum 4)
 * Erwin Schrödinger (NS 4)
 * William Shakespeare (IS 6, Hum 2)
 * Adam Smith (Soc 2)
 * Sophocles (Hum 2)
 * Georg Stahl (NS 1)
 * Tacitus (IS 5)
 * Joshua C. Taylor (Hum 1)
 * Teresa of Ávila (Hum 3)
 * Thucydides
 * History of the Peloponnesian War
 * Alexis de Tocqueville
 * Democracy in America
 * Virgil
 * Aeneid
 * Max Weber (Soc 1, Soc 4)
 * Peter Winch (Soc 4)
 * Mary Wollstonecraft (Soc 2)
 * Thomas Young (NS 3)