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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 […]

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 […]

November 30, 2020

RECAP: “Anglican Evangelism and the Maintenance of Slavery in the 18th-Century Atlantic World,” Colloquium w/ MU’s Daive Dunkley

Drawn from a larger project examining the Anglican Church’s involvement in British slave trafficking in the Americas, MU Associate Professor of Black Studies Daive Dunkley’s November 20th talk for the Fall 2020 Kinder Institute Zoom Colloquium Series focused on a number of evangelical actors who history often—and problematically—miscasts as having some abolitionist leanings. Specifically, Prof. […]