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The Kinder Institute is pleased to announce that Fall 2019 applications for research and travel grants are now open for all MU faculty and graduate students. The deadline to apply is October 18, 2019, and all application instructions can be accessed using the link below. Fall 2019 Research & Travel Grant Call-for-Applications Any questions can […]

Thanks to C-Span, you can now sit in on the panel on “19th Amendment, Voting Rights, and Foreign Relations,” that was held as part of the June 2019 annual conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, organized by Kinder Institute Endowed Chair Jay Sexton and University of East Anglia’s Kaetan Mistry. Use […]

  Use the calendar link below to access info on all Fall 2019 events at the Kinder Institute, which kick off with Washington University Prof. David Konig’s August 23 talk on Jefferson’s legal writings and wrap up with University of Toronto political theorist Emily Nacol’s December 6 talk on Locke’s 1697 “Essay on the Poor […]

In early June, twenty rising Mizzou juniors and seniors lit out east to take part in the 2019 Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program, through which they’ll spend eight weeks living, working, and exploring in the capital. An almost complete list of internship sites can be found here, and we’ll be updating this post over the […]

For anyone who missed East Anglia Prof. Kaeten Mistry and Kinder Institute Chair Jay Sexton’s February 5 conversation on the history of national security whistleblowing in the U.S., you can now access C-SPAN’s recording of the event using this link. In addition, you can find out more about Prof. Mistry’s current work with Dr. Hannah […]

Kinder Institute Endowed Chair and Professor of History Jay Sexton hopped on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on November 8 to discuss his new book A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History, published in October by Basic Books. You can listen to the full interview here.