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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 […]
February 8, 2021
RECAP: “‘A terror to others’: Thomas Jefferson’s Quiet Campaign against the Slave Trade,” colloquium w/ Andrew J. B. Fagal (TJ Papers) and Craig Hollander (College of NJ)
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 […]
January 26, 2021
RECAP: “Hidden Laws: Understanding the Resilience of the American Constitution,” Colloquium with Howard University Prof. Robinson Woodward-Burns
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 […]
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. […]