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July 15, 2024
“Notes from the Capital,” Mid-Summer Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program Update
Continuing an almost decade-long tradition, the mid-summer “Notes from the Capital” news update from our students out in D.C. with the Kinder Scholars program is officially back. Thanks to all responders, and feel free to read on and live vicariously! Kinder Institute: Where are you interning and how’s the internship going? Has it done anything […]
May 9, 2024
Wheels Across the West ASH Scholars Podcast: Subscribe Now!
For anyone who missed “Santa Fe Day”—the celebration in April of our inaugural ASH Scholars team’s research into the history of the Santa Fe Trail—fret not. The project lives on in audio form! See below for a brief description of the ten-part, Wheels Across the West podcast series that our students curated with the help […]
March 6, 2024
Pushback: The Political Fallout of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions
In this interdisciplinary book in an interdisciplinary series, Dave Bridge crosses methodological boundaries to offer readers insights on the political “pushback” that historically follows Supreme Court rulings with which most Americans disagree. After developing a framework for identifying the Court’s rare countermajoritarian decisions, Bridge shows how those decisions that liberals backed in the 1950s through […]
February 6, 2024
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered by many as the originator of the American Interstate Highway System. He is also praised for restraining executive overreach, restoring the separation of powers, and presiding over an era of governmental equanimity and goodwill. In Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act, Charles Zug contests all these assumptions. Through […]
January 23, 2024
Spring 2024 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live
From Americans abroad during World War II, to old colleagues returning to Mizzou to discuss a collaboration that got started in Columbia in 2016, to a celebration of our inaugural ASH Scholars research team, use the link below to download a copy of the full Kinder Institute events calendar for the Spring 2024 semester. Spring […]
January 16, 2024
Rhian Davies Named Second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow
This summer (2024), we will welcome our second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow to the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics. Rhian Davies is currently reading History at the University of Cardiff in the U.K. She has volunteered as a Research Assistant at the Glamorgan Archives, served as Student Rep for the Cardiff History Department and as Publicity […]