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March 23, 2021
RECAP: “The 2020 U.S. Election Crisis in Global Perspective,” Panel Discussion
With political bandwidth in the U.S. more and more consumed by tribal warfare, the perspectives of the American public and American leaders alike have become rigidly, problematically domestic. As Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy Jay Sexton noted in introducing the March 5 panel of scholars he convened and moderated, this lack of […]
March 1, 2021
RECAP: “Misleading Myths of the Missouri Crisis,” Colloquium w/ Rothermere American Institute Senior Fellow Donald Ratcliffe
Some key stories in the national narrative have become so familiar, RAI Senior Fellow Donald Ratcliffe argued in introducing his February 26 colloquium at the Kinder Institute, that our telling of them reflects not historical knowledge but gaps therein, not understanding but a perversion thereof. The Missouri Compromise is a prime example of this phenomenon, […]
February 22, 2021
RECAP: “The Missouri Compromise, Black Americans, and the Question of State Citizenship in the Antebellum United States,” Colloquium w/ Northwestern Prof. Kate Masur
In May of 1848, John Jones, a Chicago tailor, real estate owner, and vocal advocate for racial justice, sent a letter to New Hampshire Senator and congressional anti-slavery up-and-comer John Hale inquiring about the odds that his state suit petitioning for full rights as a citizen of Illinois might reach the Supreme Court. While the […]
February 22, 2021
The “Struggle for Statehood” Traveling Bicentennial Exhibit Is Now in Columbia
About two years ago, in honor of the bicentennial, the Kinder Institute partnered with the Missouri Humanities Council to develop the “Struggle for Statehood” traveling exhibit, which gives a historically rich and candid look at all facets of the debates that raged and the issues that arose during Missouri’s battle for admission into the union, […]
February 19, 2021
RECAP: “Undermining Marriage: White Supremacy and the Black Family,” Black History Month Lecture w/ Dr. Jacqueline C. Rivers
That there has been a large-scale retreat from marriage over the last half century is, to some degree, common knowledge. Far less so, Seymour Institute for Black Church & Policy Studies Executive Director Jacqueline C. Rivers stressed in her February 18 Black History Month Lecture at Mizzou, is the disproportionate degree to which this trend […]
February 16, 2021
RECAP: “Lincoln, the Founding, and the Challenge of Self-Government,” Colloquium w/ Washington & Lee Prof. Lucas Morel
When, in the first sentence of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln summoned the vision of a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” he very consciously took listeners back not to the ratification of the Constitution, nor to his own issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation just ten months prior, but rather to […]