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October 17, 2019
Recap: “Lakota America,” Oxford Exchange Lecture w/ Pekka Hämäläinen
Though his October 15 talk at MU, the first in a series of Oxford Exchange Lectures organized by the Kinder Institute, began and ended with the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, St. Catherine’s College Rhodes Chair in American History Pekka Hämäläinen stressed that understanding the significance of this historical touchstone requires tracing the Lakota’s movement […]
October 16, 2019
Recap: “Middle Atlantic Congressional Elections & the Development of American Democracy,” w/ MU Prof. Jay Dow
The driving question behind Political Science Prof. Jay Dow’s current research—when did the United States become a recognizably electoral democracy?—is one for which history and government textbooks have long had a readymade answer: the dawn of the Jacksonian era. As he showed in his October 11 presentation of this research, however, the problem with the […]
October 3, 2019
Recap: “Poverty to Prison Pipeline,” with KU’s Brandon Davis
The school to prison pipeline has been studied and publicly discussed with much vigor in recent years, and rightfully so, as scholars and advocates have done important work exposing the disproportionate and lasting ways in which school policies like zero tolerance negatively affect young Black males. However, in setting up his September 27 presentation at […]
October 2, 2019
“Ask the Experts” with Newsy (follow-up): Prof. Marvin Overby on House GOP Retirements
In a follow-up to his previous conversation with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy on how retirements and seeking higher office could impact 2020 elections, Professor of Political Science and Kinder Institute Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby focused specifically in this second interview on the long-term and short-term factors that explain why, for decades, House Republicans […]
October 1, 2019
“Ask the Experts” with Newsy: Prof. Marvin Overby on Congressional Retirements and the 2020 Elections
As part of the Kinder Institute’s ongoing participation in Newsy’s “Ask the Experts” video series, MU Professor of Political Science and KICD Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby sat down with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy to chat about the effect of congressional retirements and decisions to run for higher office in an age of “super […]
September 21, 2019
Recap: “The Lost Constitution,” Constitution Day Lecture w/ Stanford Prof. Jonathan Gienapp
Back for an encore re-telling of the U.S. constitutional backstory (he gave a Valentine’s Day 2019 talk on this subject at the Kinder Institute), Stanford Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Gienapp focused this time around on two figures from the 1787 Convention whose contributions to the drafting of the Constitution have largely been forgotten: James […]