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The newest addition to our array of study abroad programs developed in partnership with University of Oxford, and the newest collaboration between the Kinder Institute and MU Honors College, the Oxford Summer School will send 20 undergraduate Honors students across the Atlantic each July for a month of study at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute. As […]

Finalized with the start of the Fall 2024 semester (earlier than ever!), the full Kinder Institute events calendar is now officially live. From our Friday Colloquium Series, to co-sponsored lectures and conferences, to our annual James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain Constitution Day Lecture, abstracts, times, and locations for all talks can be accessed […]

Continuing an almost decade-long tradition, the mid-summer “Notes from the Capital” news update from our students out in D.C. with the Kinder Scholars program is officially back. Thanks to all responders, and feel free to read on and live vicariously! Kinder Institute: Where are you interning and how’s the internship going? Has it done anything […]

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 […]

In this interdisciplinary book in an interdisciplinary series, Dave Bridge crosses methodological boundaries to offer readers insights on the political “push­back” that historically follows Supreme Court rulings with which most Americans disagree. After developing a framework for identifying the Court’s rare countermajor­itarian decisions, Bridge shows how those decisions that liberals backed in the 1950s through […]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered by many as the originator of the American Interstate Highway System. He is also praised for restraining executive overreach, restoring the separation of powers, and presiding over an era of governmental equanimity and goodwill. In Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act, Charles Zug contests all these assumptions. Through […]