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January 21, 2021
Kinder Institute Spring 2021 Events Calendar Now Live
Beginning with Howard University Assistant Professor of Political Science Robinson Woodward-Burns’ January 22 talk on the resilience of the U.S. Constitution and wrapping up, per tradition, with Duke University Professor of History Reeve Huston’s annual Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow talk on “Patronage and Money in the Making of the Second Party System,” a printable calendar […]
January 15, 2021
2021 Shawnee Trail Conference on American Politics & Constitutionalism Call-for-Papers (Deadline Jan. 31)
Now in its seventh year, the Shawnee Trail Conference on American Politics & Constitutionalism will take the form of a manuscript workshop in 2021, co-sponsored by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy and the journal American Political Thought. Manuscript proposals are currently being accepted, with a deadline of January 31, and we are open to […]
January 7, 2021
2021-22 Undergraduate Oxford Fellowship Applications Now Open
The Kinder Institute is currently accepting applications from rising MU juniors and seniors for its 2021-22 Oxford Fellowship program. Oxford Fellows will spend a full, three-term academic year at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, as an embedded student of history. Application instructions and program details and logistics can be found in the call below. […]
December 7, 2020
RECAP: “Talking Back to Thomas Jefferson: African-American Nationalism in the Early Republic,” Colloquium with U. Penn Professor Mia Bay
Though it was produced centuries after the time period on which her December 4 talk focused, University of Pennsylvania Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History Mia Bay cited the juxtaposition of Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Faith Ringgold’s 2009 “As Free and Independent States” as embodying exactly […]
December 7, 2020
Fall 2020 Colloquium Recordings: Catch Up on the Action Here
One of the advantages of shifting to the world of Zoom is that we were able to record many of our talks from the Fall 2020 semester. So, if there was a colloquium you missed that you want to catch up on—or one you attended that you want to re-visit—use the links below to access […]
November 30, 2020
RECAP: “A Union, Not a Nation-State: The Constitution as a Federal Treaty,” Colloquium w/ King’s College London’s Max Edling
Providing a sneak peek of his forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph, Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the U.S. Constitution, King’s College London Reader in Early American History Max Edling began his October 9 talk at the Kinder Institute, delivered via Zoom from Sweden, by describing how his ambition for the book is […]