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October 28, 2019
Recap: “Re-thinking the History of U.S. Government,” with American University Prof. Gautham Rao
The need for a “new historiography of the early federal government,” American University’s Gautham Rao underscored throughout his October 23 talk at the Kinder Institute, is predicated on the fact that the longstanding one doesn’t match the actual history. Until recently, literature has cast the nascent U.S. state as diminutive and weak. Prof. Rao pointed […]
October 25, 2019
November 18 Information Session for New A&S M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics
The Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy will be holding an information session for students interested in pursuing one of the College of Arts & Science’s newest degrees, a one-year M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics, which launches in July 2020 with an embedded month of study at University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College). The session […]
October 22, 2019
Recap: “Bad Bicentennial,” w/ Providence College Prof. Sharon Ann Murphy
Half history colloquium, half crash course in 19th-century public finance, Providence College Professor of History Sharon Ann Murphy’s October 18 talk at the Kinder Institute, “Reflections on the Panic of 1819,” began with a lesson on how not to borrow and how not to lend. After the War of 1812, she noted in opening, the […]
October 17, 2019
Recap: “Lakota America,” Oxford Exchange Lecture w/ Pekka Hämäläinen
Though his October 15 talk at MU, the first in a series of Oxford Exchange Lectures organized by the Kinder Institute, began and ended with the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, St. Catherine’s College Rhodes Chair in American History Pekka Hämäläinen stressed that understanding the significance of this historical touchstone requires tracing the Lakota’s movement […]
October 16, 2019
Recap: “Middle Atlantic Congressional Elections & the Development of American Democracy,” w/ MU Prof. Jay Dow
The driving question behind Political Science Prof. Jay Dow’s current research—when did the United States become a recognizably electoral democracy?—is one for which history and government textbooks have long had a readymade answer: the dawn of the Jacksonian era. As he showed in his October 11 presentation of this research, however, the problem with the […]
October 3, 2019
Recap: “Poverty to Prison Pipeline,” with KU’s Brandon Davis
The school to prison pipeline has been studied and publicly discussed with much vigor in recent years, and rightfully so, as scholars and advocates have done important work exposing the disproportionate and lasting ways in which school policies like zero tolerance negatively affect young Black males. However, in setting up his September 27 presentation at […]