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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]