The Kinder Institute prepares Mizzou undergraduate students for lives as thoughtful, informed and engaged citizens.
The Kinder Institute supports the development of the next generation of professors and scholars of political thought and history.
The Kinder Institute advances the work and teaching of faculty whose scholarship focuses on the global history of constitutional democracy.
"As fun as it is scholastic," this spring course, which includes a week in D.C., "gives you the opportunity to take what you learn in the classroom and see it in action in the nation's capital."
Listen to some of our inaugural undergraduate ASH Scholars describe the experience of bringing a year’s worth of research on the history and legacy of the Santa Fe Trail to the public.
You come from the heartland, and it is truly the beating heart of America and its history. Within three hours of Columbia, there are places that are central to America's destiny...where, today, American history is remembered.
What's the secret to being a good historian? Find out here, in this brief interview with Rich & Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History Jay Sexton.