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June 1, 2018
Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed […]
May 10, 2018
“Special Relationship” with Corpus Christi College’s Nigel Bowles
As part of the Kinder Institute’s “Global History at Oxford” alumni and undergraduate study abroad trip, Corpus Christi College (Oxford) Senior Research Fellow Nigel Bowles gave a March 29 after-dinner talk on the “Special Relationship.”
April 23, 2018
“American Empire” with Cambridge Professor A. G. Hopkins
Making a stop in Columbia on his scholarly world tour, Cambridge University Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History A. G. Hopkins gave an April 9 talk in Jesse 410 on his most recent book, American Empire: A Global History.
April 17, 2018
“Jeffersonian Constitutionalism”: Town & Gown with Rice Prof. John Boles
For the Kinder Institute’s annual Town & Gown Dinner Lecture, Rice University William P. Hobby Professor of History John Boles gave an April 10 talk on the ideas and events that shaped the trajectory of Jefferson’s evolving ideas about constitutionalism.
April 11, 2018
Demystifying “Democracy vs. Republic”: KICD Faculty in the Post-Dispatch
A news item so exciting it gets its own post, Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer and Kinder Institute Associate Professor of Constitutional Democracy Adam Seagrave took to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently to address the sometimes contested distinction between calling the United States a democracy vs. calling the nation a republic. Read the full text of […]
April 2, 2018
“Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age”: Public Lecture with PBS’ Alexander Heffner
On March 20, 2018, in the Smith Forum at Reynolds Journalism Institute, “Open Mind” host Alexander Heffner spoke to a capacity crowd about current incivility in public discourse, and especially in the “anti-social media complex,” and ways that we might go about “amusing our democracy back to life.” Following the talk, the Kinder Institute and […]