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We would like to give a special thanks to C-Span for helping us create an archive of recent Kinder Institute events: Unbound Book Festival panel on “Is the First Amendment in Crisis,” with Kinder Institute and MU Law Associate Professor Carli Conklin (moderator), and panelists Stephanie Shonekan (Chair of MU’s Black Studies Department), David Von […]

For Round 2 of our “Notes from the Capital” series of updates from our undergrads out in D.C., we have first-person accounts of the intern’s life and more from rising senior Lauren Russ (International Studies) and rising junior Tom Coulter (Journalism/History). We’ll let them take it from here… from Lauren “This summer I’m interning with […]

Since late-May, a group of 21 Mizzou undergrads have been living, studying, working, and exploring in (and around) the capital as part of the Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program. We reached out to them recently for news about the first few weeks in Washington, and what follows is a wrap-up of some of their responses, […]

Hearty congratulations are due to University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor of Classics & Letters Andrew Porwancher, whose John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law, the second title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph series, was one of two books to receive […]

A big congratulations to the MU Political Science Professors Bill Horner and James Endersby for being selected as recipients of the 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award for their co-authored Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation, the first title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy book […]

Presidential inaugurations always bring with them spirited discussion and debate about the nature, character, and aspirations of American democracy, and it is safe to say that this year’s was no exception to this rule. These kinds of conversations are, to be sure, of the utmost importance—vital to national health and progress—and while they naturally crescendo […]