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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 […]
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 […]
April 12, 2021
RECAP: “Two Views of Universal Suffrage: Anticolonial and Neoliberal,” with UVA Prof. of Politics Kevin Duong
In his 1920 Black Water, W.E.B. Du Bois described universal suffrage in terms importantly different from our procedural norm. “In people,” Du Bois wrote, “we have the source of that endless life and unbound wisdom which the rulers of men must have.” Votes, for Du Bois, weren’t simply there to be counted. Rather, they were […]
March 30, 2021
RECAP: “The Recurring Crises of American Democracy,” Book Talk w/ Profs. Suzanne Mettler (Cornell) and Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins)
After sending their recent co-authored book, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, to press about a year ago, Cornell University John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science Robert Lieberman watched as the threats to democracy that they examined escalated, culminating in the January […]