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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]