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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 […]
February 24, 2020
Recap: “Slavery & Politics at the University of Missouri,” with Kinder Institute Postdoc Zachary Dowdle
When then-aspiring politician James Sidney Rollins gave a July 4, 1834, public speech on the importance of education, he must have known that he was preaching to the choir. The state’s Whig-leaning population was open in its belief that an informed citizenry would benefit both civic and economic life in Missouri, and when Rollins reached […]
February 18, 2020
Recap: “Constructing Colonial Identities and Power in the British Atlantic World,” with KICD Postdoc Erin Marie Holmes
At first blush, the initial question posed in Kinder Institute Postdoc Erin Marie Holmes’ February 14 colloquium—“how do we recover the lost 18th-century landscape and built environment?”—seems like an insurmountable obstacle. Especially given limited scholarship on the subject, scanty documentary record, and a sometimes counter-productive disciplinary divide within the academy, it would seem that a […]