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June 7, 2021
KICD Advisory Board Member Jean Becker Publishes “The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush’s Post-Presidency”
It’s with great pleasure that we get to spread the word about the June 1, 2021, publication of Kinder Institute Advisory Board Member and Former Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush Jean Becker’s newest book, The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush’s Post-Presidency (Twelve Books). A link […]
June 4, 2021
Contesting the Constitution: Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821
The admission of Missouri to the Union quickly became a constitutional crisis of the first order, inciting an intensive reexamination of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Congress. The heart of the question in need of resolution was whether that body possessed the authority to place conditions on a territory—in this instance Missouri—regarding restrictions on […]
June 4, 2021
A Fire Bell in the Past, The Missouri Crisis at 200: Vol 1, Western Slavery, National Impasse
Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, A Fire-Bell in the Past: Re-assessing the Missouri Crisis at 200, held at the University of Missouri at Columbia on February 15-16, 2019. In an attempt […]
May 10, 2021
2021-22 MRSEAH Call for Submissions
Launched with the Kinder Institute in 2014, the Missouri Regional Seminar on Early American History (MRSEAH) provides scholars working on topics related to American history before 1900 with an opportunity to share research-in-progress with colleagues from around the Midwest in a constructive and convivial workshop setting. We welcome work on all aspects of American history, […]
May 3, 2021
Spring 2021 Event Recordings
From our late-January kickoff event on the importance of state constitutions with Howard University’s Robinson Woodward-Burns to Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Reeve Huston’s semester-concluding April 30 talk on “Money and the Remaking of American Democracy, 1815-1840,” catch up on all Spring 2021 Kinder Institute events here, on our YouTube page.
April 22, 2021
RECAP: “Re-thinking the Separation of Powers,” Colloquium w/ McGill University Tomlinson Prof. Jacob Levy
In contextualizing the central theme of his April 16 talk within the history of political thought, McGill University Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory Jacob Levy summoned a figure who has become something of a familiar specter in the Kinder Institute’s 2020-21 Friday Colloquium Series: Montesquieu. Specifically, he held out Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws as […]