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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 […]

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 […]

For a figure as studied as Thomas Jefferson, relatively little ink has been spilled on his time in the executive office. We get the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark expedition in our textbooks, Jefferson Papers Associate Editor Andrew J. B. Fagal noted, and if we’re lucky, The Embargo Act. Similarly, as understandably central […]

The question at the heart of Howard University Assistant Professor of Political Science Robinson Woodward-Burns’ January 22 talk at the Kinder Institute—likewise the question at the heart of his forthcoming Yale University Press monograph—is a straightforward one: How, amidst continuous calls for reform, has the U.S. Constitution not only survived but survived in relatively stable […]

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 […]

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 […]