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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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Drawing on research from his new book, Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Western Washington University Professor and Chair of History Johann Neem’s February 15 lecture at the Kinder Instituted explored the historic purposes for the development of public education—educating citizens, developing human capabilities, and forging a nation—in order […]

On January 31, the Kinder Institute hosted University of Oklahoma Professor of Political Science Keith Gaddie on campus for a talk that uses recent litigation in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina to raise questions concerning the constitutionality of gerrymandering and to explore the potential for different empirical and constitutional tests that might tame egregious abuses […]