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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 […]
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 […]