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Senior Constitutional Democracy majors Parker Ezell and Christian Kasten started summer 2025 back in the classroom at the Henry Clay College Student Congress, a two-week immersive program that brings together 51 rising college seniors representing each state and the District of Columbia to develop bipartisan policy solutions to real issues facing the US. The program […]

As the nation reflects on Memorial Day, the University of Missouri proudly reaffirms its commitment to continued collaboration with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Read more below about the work being done with DPAA on campus to help account for Americans still missing from past conflicts and bring answers to the families of the fallen. […]

Students, staff, and faculty were honored for their exceptional accomplishments over the past year—and, in many cases, years—on Tuesday, May 13, during the Kinder Institute’s annual spring awards ceremony at Reynolds Alumni Center. Among other things, the event celebrated graduating seniors and members of the MA cohort, with individual awards presented across several categories. View […]

We’re back with installment two of Kinder Institute undergraduate Elise Milburn’s alumni spotlight series, this time featuring Sam Franks, who was in town in March to receive one of the College of Arts & Science’s 2025 Distinguished Recent Alumni Awards. The College of Arts and Science recently honored Kinder alumna Sam Franks as one of […]

How did early U.S. constitutional democracy develop? How did it evolve from colonial times through the crisis over slavery? What happened to the social forms of constitutional democracy as this political system moved into the interior of the continent? Finally, how are the citizens of rural Missouri today engaging with the history and memory of […]

Thanks to KICD Professor of British History Rob Fletcher, the Kinder Institute is pleased to support a new research initiative on the history of the world’s transcontinental railways. Rail—and especially transcontinental rail—is often understood as a technology that linked up nations, drove economic development, and symbolized modernity. Less understood are the social histories of the […]