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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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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. […]

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 […]