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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]