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For anyone who missed “Santa Fe Day”—the celebration in April of our inaugural ASH Scholars team’s research into the history of the Santa Fe Trail—fret not. The project lives on in audio form! See below for a brief description of the ten-part, Wheels Across the West podcast series that our students curated with the help […]

An event years in the planning, the “Electocracy in America: Elections and their Alternatives” conference will be held on March 15-16 in Columbia, with the bulk of proceedings taking place at the Kinder Institute offices in Jesse Hall. Placing political theorists in conversation with political historians, and scholars of revolutions in conversation with scholars of […]

From Americans abroad during World War II, to old colleagues returning to Mizzou to discuss a collaboration that got started in Columbia in 2016, to a celebration of our inaugural ASH Scholars research team, use the link below to download a copy of the full Kinder Institute events calendar for the Spring 2024 semester. Spring […]

This summer (2024), we will welcome our second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow to the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics. Rhian Davies is currently reading History at the University of Cardiff in the U.K. She has volunteered as a Research Assistant at the Glamorgan Archives, served as Student Rep for the Cardiff History Department and as Publicity […]

The 1825 rendering of Monticello with which Kinder Institute Distinguished Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide began her December 1 Friday Colloquium Series presentation framed the talk both because of what it depicted and what it didn’t. A vision of pastoral 19th-century domesticity and whiteness, we see two of Jefferson’s granddaughters strolling the mansion’s front lawn while […]

A term both inspiring and misunderstood, ‘freedom’ holds a particular place in the historical and lexical narrative of the United States, where its meaning is rooted as much in a right to enslave as it is in a defense of liberty. What would it take, UVA James Hart Professor of Politics Lawrie Balfour asked in […]