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November 15, 2019
Recap: “Disestablishment & Religious Dissent,” with MU’s Carl Esbeck and Samford’s Jonathan Den Hartog
We’ll keep this recap brief and direct those interested in the topic to the recently-published experts, but we were thrilled to have MU R.B. Price and Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus of Law Carl Esbeck and Samford University Professor of History Jonathan Den Hartog on the fourth floor of Jesse on November […]
November 14, 2019
MU Announces $10 Million Gift from Kinder Foundation for New A&S B.A. and M.A.
As this MU News Bureau release makes clear, November 12 marked a historic day for the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri. As they stepped to the podium, all of the morning’s speakers—MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright, Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer, Corpus Christi College President Helen Moore (whose remarks were read by Kinder Institute Endowed […]
November 13, 2019
Welcoming the 2020 Kinder Scholars
It’s with great pleasure that we get to announce this year’s class of the Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program, members of which will head east in June 2020 to embark on a ten-week journey of interning, studying, and exploring in the capital. Ethan Anderson (History & English) Logan Boone (History & Economics) Kadie Clark (Geography […]
November 13, 2019
Recap: “Missouri in the World, and the World in Missouri” w/ UTS’s Tamson Pietsch
When it’s written about, which is rarely, NYU Professor of Psychology James Lough’s Floating University, the origin myth for today’s semester-at-sea programs and perhaps the first for-credit U.S. study abroad offering, is cast as a large-scale failure. But if we trace the story back to a Centralia, Missouri, railway station in 1926, and if we […]
November 1, 2019
Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833
On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were […]
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 […]