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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 […]

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom […]

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 […]

Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Prof. Carli N. Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety […]