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On behalf of everyone at the Kinder Institute, we offer a hearty congratulations to the students below, who will head east to D.C. in June as members of the eighth cohort of our Kinder Scholars Summer Program. Jackson Bailey (Constitutional Democracy) Lauren Bayne (Secondary Education, Political Science) Anna Cowden (Journalism, Constitutional Democracy) Grace Cunningham (Environmental […]

Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment […]

Given the strength—and to some degree the mysteriousness—of the subtitle for his most recent book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, University of South Carolina McCausland Professor of History Woody Holton noted in beginning his November 11 lecture at the State Historical Society of Missouri this his goal for the talk […]

There is an inherent difficulty in writing the history of the Haitian Revolution: How do you channel the thought and visions of the enslaved people who imagined and enacted the Revolution when they left very few documents behind? Put more optimistically, alternate pathways for accessing the intellectual and political worlds of the era must be […]

After delivering a Thursday night lecture tightly focused on theatre and revolution in Saint-Domingue, University of Virginia John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy Laurent Dubois zoomed out in his October 29 presentation at the Kinder Institute’s Friday Colloquium Series, providing an overview of a new book project that […]

The great fallacy of scholarship on the origins of American politics, Franklin & Marshall Professor of History Van Gosse noted in opening his October 15 colloquium at the Kinder Institute, is the idea that, at the time of the founding, only propertied white men could vote. No! In New Jersey, for example, women could vote […]