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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]