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May 8, 2020
Dr. Thomas Kane named a finalist for the 2020 Mick Deaver Memorial Award for Student Relations Excellence!
We are thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Thomas Kane was named a finalist for the 2020 Mick Deaver Memorial Award for Student Relations Excellence! The Mick Deaver award seeks “to honor a staff member who exemplifies Mick Deaver’s concern for fostering good relations with students.” Since he joined the Kinder Institute on […]
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 […]
April 6, 2020
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856
City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave’s economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp’s remote sectors and […]