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September 22, 2020
RECAP: “One Woman, One Vote,” Constitution Day Lecture w/ Distinguished Prof. Marjorie J. Spruill
The obstacles suffragists faced in the “continuous, seemingly endless chain of activity” that led up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment were, University of South Carolina Distinguished Professor Emerita Marjorie J. Spruill described, to some extent built into the United States’ founding history. On one hand, with the principle of coverture erasing married women’s […]
September 17, 2020
RECAP: “The Improbable Life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney,” Colloquium w/ SLU Prof. Lorri Glover
To her friend Mary Bartlett’s tongue-in-cheek question about the gender of a comet soaring above Charleston in 1742, Eliza Lucas Pinckney responded, “If it is any mortal transformed in this glorious luminary, why not a woman?” If this was an audacious thing to ask in the mid-18th century colonies, Saint Louis University Professor and Bannon […]
September 10, 2020
RECAP: “The Other Fire Bell: African Americans and the Long Shadow of the Missouri Compromise,” Zoom Colloquium w/ RIT Prof. Richard Newman
Previewing his chapter for the Kinder Institute and MU Press’ forthcoming edited volume examining the Missouri Crisis at its bicentennial, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor of History Richard Newman described his contribution to the book as one that would detail the vital role that African Americans played in shaping the meaning and historical memory of […]
September 3, 2020
Fall 2020 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live
Re-located mostly to Zoom, with a few in-person events here and there, the Fall 2020 Kinder Institute events calendar is now live. Use the link below to download a copy. Fall 2020 KICD Events Calendar For all Friday Zoom Colloquia, email Allison Smythe, SmytheA@missouri.edu, the week of the talk for a link to participate.
June 29, 2020
Distinguished MU Alumna Jean Becker Joins Kinder Institute Advisory Board
On Monday, June 29, 2020, the Kinder Institute announced that MU alumna Jean Becker, formerly chief of staff for George H. W. Bush, will join the KICD Advisory Board, effective July 1. Read on here for the full press release detailing Monday’s announcement.
May 21, 2020
Summer Online at the Kinder Institute
A wholesale scrapping of all spring events being a fully unsatisfactory prospect, we’ve decided to join the Zoom movement (Zoovement?) and re-locate as many talks as possible to the virtual realm. We’ll be back online starting on June 5, after taking a brief post-semester hiatus to re-group, but for now, you can catch up on […]