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May 5, 2020
RECAP: “Divided Houses: The Long History of American Secession Movements,” with Prof. Ken Owen
The Pacific Northwest, where Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Ken Owen geographically began, embodies the two major takeaways from his May 1 Zoom colloquium: that secession is entrenched in the American political story and that it’s nearly impossible to singularly characterize the motivations behind secession movements. As to the former, almost as soon as the boundaries […]
April 29, 2020
“A rare one”: Faramola Shonekan, Mizzou’s newest Mark Twain Fellow
The story of Faramola Shonekan’s journey to becoming Mizzou’s 2020 Mark Twain Fellow has already been told in a couple different places. MU’s Fellowships Office did a wonderful write-up about April 28th’s surprise announcement (hat-tip to our own Jay Sexton for helping pull off the ruse), and Columbia’s local paper covered her exceptional undergraduate career […]
April 28, 2020
RECAP: “Parallels & Pragmatism: Disease Control in History” Panel Discussion
The manic depressive “end of history” rhetoric that inevitably arrives in lockstep with crisis is, Kinder Institute Associate Director Jeff Pasley pointed out in kicking off the April 24 panel on “Disease Control in History,” something that can (or at least should) be easily tempered by showing how, in similar times, history hasn’t actually ended. […]
April 20, 2020
RECAP: “The Creation of the President’s Cabinet,” with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Talking about the constitutional origins of the president’s cabinet comes by necessity with a wink and a nod, White House Historical Association Historian Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky noted in opening her April 17 colloquium presentation, since the institution we’ve all grown so accustomed to isn’t officially mentioned in the nation’s charter. That said, variations on […]
March 2, 2020
Recap: “Justice Grayed, Aged, and Delayed,” with University of Wisconsin Prof. Ryan Owens
The short answer to the question at the heart of University of Wisconsin Edwards Professor of American Politics Ryan Owens’ February 28 colloquium at the Kinder Institute is, quite simply, ‘yes’: In a way that we should probably expect, cognitive aging does impact the faculties of judges in ways similar to everyone else. Attention and […]
February 27, 2020
2020-21 Undergraduate Oxford Fellowship Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for the Kinder Institute’s next undergraduate Oxford Fellow, who will spend the entire 2020-21 academic year as a fully embedded second-year student of history at Corpus Christi College. All rising juniors and seniors at Mizzou who have demonstrated exceptional aptitude for the study of history are eligible to apply, and program […]