M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics
Applications for the next M.A. and M.A./J.D. cohorts will open in Fall 2021.
UNDERGRADUATE
The Kinder Institute prepares Mizzou undergraduate students for lives as thoughtful, informed and engaged citizens.
OUR PROGRAMS
Isaac Baker, Class of 2020 (Bachelor of Education Studies, BA History)
The route I followed with the Kinder Institute took me from the Society of Fellows, to Oxford, to D.C., and I find the friends I made to be one of the greatest aspects of my experience with these programs.
On the Kinder Institute Undergraduate Experience
From a summer in D.C. with the Kinder Scholars program to her Journal on Constitutional Democracy publication, Riley Messer (Political Science) talks "dreaming big" as a Kinder Institute undergrad.
Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter's College (Oxford) & Kinder Institute Senior Fellow
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.
Kinder Institute Endowed Chair Jay Sexton on the Historian's Craft
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.
EVENTS
VIEW FULL CALENDAR10/01/2021
“Jefferson’s Ocean: Political Thought and the Terraqueous Globe,” Colloquium with Hobart and William Smith Colleges Historian Matthew Crow
10/01/2021
“The Constitutions of Herman Melville,” MRSEAH with Hobart and William Smith Colleges Historian Matthew Crow
10/08/2021
“Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Deed Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation in St. Louis,” Colloquium with University of Iowa Prof. Colin Gordon
10/15/2021
“The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America before the Civil War,” Friday Colloquium with Franklin & Marshall’s Van Gosse
NEWS
ALL NEWSJuly 26, 2021
“Strange History,” A Podcast Brought to You from the M.A. Program in Oxford by Riley Messer
July 20, 2021
from Starting Points: “The Founders’ Disappointments,” Dennis C. Rasumussen
June 28, 2021
“Notes from the Capitol,” Installment One
June 7, 2021
KICD Advisory Board Member Jean Becker Publishes “The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush’s Post-Presidency”
