EVENTS

What Major League Baseball taketh away, we giveth. Just weeks before pitchers and catchers would normally report to Spring Training sites, we bring you a panel discussion, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance style, on Baseball, Law, and Society. MU Ph.D. Candidate Japheth Knopp will present his dissertation research on “The Negro Major Leagues and the Kansas City Black Community, […]

Join Missouri graduate Taylor (Rausch) Meehan (Class of 2010) in a discussion about her experience as a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, her Supreme Court debut arguing Patel v. Garland this Term, and her reflections on the Supreme Court as one of America’s enduring institutions. The event, co-sponsored by the Kinder Institute and MU […]

Debuting a new MRSEAH wrinkle, the February 11 meeting in St. Louis will, for the first time, feature discussion of graduate work: MU Ph.D. Candidate and Jeff Pasley advisee Mackenzie Tor’s paper, “‘The Tyrant Intemperance’: Temperance, Abolition, and Antebellum Black Reform Thought, 1820-1860,” and CUNY-Graduate Center Ph.D. Candidate Evan Turiano’s dissertation chapter-in-progress, “‘This National Crime’: […]

In partnership with the Show-Me Institute, the Kinder Institute will gather election officials from across Missouri (see below) to share their insights on how they currently keep the state’s elections secure, as well as their suggestions for how to improve election security going forward. The event, which is free and open to the public, will […]

President Donald J. Trump was impeached twice toward the end of his term. The two impeachments were unprecedented in their nature and led to a vigorous debate among scholars, historians, politicians, and citizens. On February 17 and 18, some of the country’s greatest minds will (virtually) converge at the University of Missouri to rekindle that […]

This roundtable event celebrates the recent publication of African American Political Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2021, description here), an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who addressed key political issues: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. The event brings the volume’s editors (Profs. Melvin […]

Delivering our annual Distinguished Visitor Lecture, Prof. Anne Twitty, in Columbia for the year from the University of Mississippi, will share some of the research she’s been doing on the fourth floor of Jesse Hall in a talk examining the history of state constitutional ratification and the historiographical assumption of its centrality to understanding the […]

Brown University Professor of History Christopher Grasso will make a spring trip to Columbia to present on his 2021 Oxford University Press monograph, Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy, which traces the extraordinary life of Missouri schoolteacher and preacher John R. Kelso, who rose to fame fighting rebel guerrillas during the Civil War (see book description/abstract below). […]

In a lecture organized by the History Department and co-sponsored by a number of groups on campus, University of Tennessee Professor of History Monica Black will give a talk on her 2020 monograph, A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WW II Germany (see abstract below).Co-sponsors include the School […]

In a rare Monday colloquium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Professor of Later Medieval History John Watts will take over Prof. Jay Sexton’s undergraduate global history seminar to explore the role of the crown in the making of the English constitution (see abstract below). The talk will take place on March 21 at 5pm in Cook […]

To close proceedings for the 2022 gathering of the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians in Columbia, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Emeritus Rhodes Professor of American History Richard Carwardine will give an opening night keynote on religious strife in the Civil War-era Union (see abstract below). The talk will be held on Saturday, April […]

For the final MRSEAH meeting of the 2021-22 academic year, former Kinder Institute Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Dan Mandell will return to Columbia on April 29 to present a chapter-in-progress on the shifts in U.S. Indian policies between the Revolution and the Removal Act (see abstract below), which is part of a larger study, begun […]

For the Kinder Institute’s third (and twice-postponed) Distinguished Lecture, Award-Winning Historian Andrew Roberts will give a talk on his most recent book, The Last King of America, which re-appraises George III in light of a longstanding, popular misunderstanding of the monarch as a heartless buffoon and disastrous politician, with few, if any, redeeming qualities (see […]

To wrap up the Spring Colloquium Series, longtime friend of the Kinder Institute Lawrence Goldman will put a trans-Atlantic spin on his February 2022 Oxford University Press monograph, Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain. The talk will take place on May 6 at 3:30pm in Jesse Hall 410, and this post […]