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February 3, 2020
Recap: “Montesquieu and Moderation: A Liberal Art for the Commercial World,” with KICD Postdoc Constantine Vassiliou
The commerce v. virtue dilemma central to Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Constantine Vassiliou’s January 31 talk in Jesse 410 is (at least) as old as the Enlightenment and (at least) as immediately relevant as the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s. How, we continue to ask, can magnanimity be nourished within the context of commercial […]
January 15, 2020
Spring 2020 KICD Events Calendar Now Available
Use the link below to download a copy of our Spring 2020 schedule of events, which begins with a January 24 symposium on the political career and thought of James Madison and wraps up on May 5 with award-winning historian Andrew Roberts’ Distinguished Lecture, “Churchill: Walking with Destiny.” Spring 2020 KICD Events Calendar Any questions […]
January 14, 2020
KICD Grad Conference Call-for-Papers: “The Long Atlantic World, 1500-2000” (Deadline Extended to Jan. 31)
Submissions are currently open for the second annual Kinder Institute Graduate Student Conference, which will be organized this year around the theme of “The Long Atlantic World, 1500-200” (see below for more information). The conference will be held on April 25, 2020, in the Kinder Institute offices in Jesse Hall, and submissions, which include a […]
January 13, 2020
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia […]
January 1, 2020
The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783-1840
The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the nation’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s. Relying on government records, private correspondence, and newspapers, Kristopher Maulden argues that Federalists originated […]
November 22, 2019
Recap: “Civilians & the Laws of War: The Case of Civil War Missouri,” w/ LSU Prof. Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Though the French Revolution is typically designated as such, LSU Professor and Chair of History Aaron Sheehan-Dean opened his November 21 lecture at the Center for Missouri Studies with the competing claim that the Civil War was instead the “first popular war,” primarily because it was being fought by two democracies, if two highly imperfect […]