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February 28, 2018
“Public Schools and American Democracy”: Lecture with Prof. Johann Neem
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 […]
February 7, 2018
“Thinking About Gerrymandering”: Colloquium with OU’s Keith Gaddie
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 […]
January 10, 2018
Kinder Institute Joins Statewide Bicentennial Alliance
Thanks to the hard work of our longtime collaborator Dr. Steve Belko, Executive Director of the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kinder Institute has officially entered a statewide alliance of six nonprofit organizations and government agencies mutually committed to developing educational, community outreach, and scholarly research projects and events related to the Missouri Bicentennial. Representatives of […]
January 9, 2018
“Thinking Out Loud”: Kinder Institute Faculty on KBIA
A pair of Kinder Institute faculty members sat down during the Fall 2017 semester with our friends at Columbia-based NPR affiliate KBIA (91.3) to talk about projects they have in the works.
December 1, 2017
“Continental Revolutions”: Public Talk with UVA’s Alan Taylor
Working against the narrative of the American Revolution as a high-minded, orderly event, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and University of Virginia Jefferson Foundation Chair in History Alan Taylor’s October 4 talk at the Kinder Institute wove a new national creation story, tracing the history of the conflict with Great Britain from the turbulent conditions that boiled […]
December 1, 2017
“Madison’s Hand”: Constitution Day Lecture with Mary Sarah Bilder
For the second installment of the Kinder Institute’s Constitution Week Lecture Series, Boston College Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder gave a talk on her recent research into Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention, which uses digital technologies and rigorous textual analysis to reveal invisible, and previously unsuspected, layers of revision in Madison’s […]