M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics
Applications for the next M.A. cohort open in Fall 2022
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 CALENDAR10/14/2022
“Entrenched Secrecy: The Culture of National Security Secrets in Modern America,” 10/14 Colloquium with University of East Anglia Prof. Kaeten Mistry
10/21/2022
“Freedom in Black and White: The Politics of Slavery and Black Expatriation in 19th-Century America,” 10/21 Colloquium with KICD Postdoc Andy Hammann
10/28/2022
“Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom,” 10/28 Colloquium w/ Stanford University Historian Kathryn Olivarius
11/09/2022
“Peace and Friendship: Lessons from the Legacy of Broken Concord,” Fall 2022 Keynote Lecture with Autry Museum President and UCLA Professor Emeritus Stephen Aron
NEWS
ALL NEWSSeptember 13, 2022
Fall 2022 Undergraduate Deadlines
September 12, 2022
RECAP: “The Historian’s Case against the Independent State Legislature Theory,” Colloquium w/ George Mason Historian Rosemarie Zagarri
September 8, 2022
RECAP: “Birth Control Law and Reform in the Age before Roe,” Colloquium w/ Kennesaw State Prof. Lauren MacIvor Thompson
August 12, 2022
Fall 2022 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live!