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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.
June 7, 2020
Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865
Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population. In this pathbreaking account, Billy Coleman uses the history of American music to illuminate the relationship between elite power and the people from the early national period to the Civil War. […]
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 […]
May 11, 2020
RECAP: “The Centrality of Slavery: Settlement, Enslavement, and Middle Class Slaveholders in Missouri, 1770-1820,” Online Colloquium w/ Prof. John Craig Hammond
In providing a preview of what will be the lead chapter in the forthcoming MU Press/Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph re-visiting the Missouri Crisis at 200, Penn State University-New Kensington Prof. John Craig Hammond, who will edit that volume along with Kinder Institute Associate Director Jeff Pasley, highlighted how little is actually known about the […]