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September 8, 2021
2022 Shawnee Trail Conference Call-for-Papers
In the early nineteenth century, the Shawnee Trail conveyed cattle from Texas pasture-lands to Missouri railheads and thence the nation. Drawing on this spirit of regional connections and networks of exchange, the Shawnee Trail Conference was launched in 2015 as a way for scholars throughout the Midwest to share their research on topics related to […]
September 7, 2021
RECAP: “The Party of No,” 9/3 Colloquium with Eastern Connecticut Historian Thomas Balcerski
If we place its origins in the 1790s, with Jefferson and Madison’s forging of the Democratic-Republican Party, there can be little argument that what we now know simply by the first half of its old moniker is, in fact, the nation’s oldest mass partisan institution. As Eastern Connecticut Associate Professor of History Thomas Balcerski noted […]
August 25, 2021
Fall 2021 KICD Events Calendar Now Live
For news on everything from our semester-opening colloquium on “When Democrats Were Conservatives,” through the Cambridge History of America & the World book launch that we’ll end the term with, use the link below to download a copy of our Fall 2021 events calendar. Fall 2021 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Follow us on Facebook, @constitutionaldemocracy, […]
July 26, 2021
“Strange History,” A Podcast Brought to You from the M.A. Program in Oxford by Riley Messer
As a final project for the Oxford leg of the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics, Riley Messer produced the first—and we hope not the only—episode of her “Strange History” podcast, exploring how cannibalism was important, among other things, to the formation of Atlantic identities, to the establishment of racial hierarchies, and to reckoning with […]
July 20, 2021
from Starting Points: “The Founders’ Disappointments,” Dennis C. Rasumussen
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered one last time in the Assembly Room of what is now Independence Hall to sign the charter that they had spent the past four months crafting. As the last of the thirty-eight signers affixed their names to the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin called attention to […]
June 28, 2021
“Notes from the Capitol,” Installment One
After having to take a year hiatus, we’re excited (to say the least) to be back with our semi-regular “Notes from the Capital” series, in which students who are out in D.C. as part of our Kinder Scholars Summer Program update us on their East Coast adventures. We’ll be back with another installment later in […]