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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 […]
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 […]