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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 […]

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 […]

The 1825 rendering of Monticello with which Kinder Institute Distinguished Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide began her December 1 Friday Colloquium Series presentation framed the talk both because of what it depicted and what it didn’t. A vision of pastoral 19th-century domesticity and whiteness, we see two of Jefferson’s granddaughters strolling the mansion’s front lawn while […]

A term both inspiring and misunderstood, ‘freedom’ holds a particular place in the historical and lexical narrative of the United States, where its meaning is rooted as much in a right to enslave as it is in a defense of liberty. What would it take, UVA James Hart Professor of Politics Lawrie Balfour asked in […]

“I’m gonna tell you everything you need to know about…local government. ‘Life, Liberty, and Property.’ John Locke.” —Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation Though not necessarily the most reliable narrator—at the very least, not the most ideologically neutral one—Ron Swanson does capture Locke’s uniquely central place in American culture and the American political imagination today. His […]

So much of political discourse in the United States focuses on two-, four-, and six-year election cycles. Yet, so much of politics happens outside of them. As a way to both broaden and refine the conception of political time, University of Cambridge Paul Mellon Professor of American History Gary Gerstle, the Kinder Institute’s 2023 James […]