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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 […]
December 1, 2017
From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction
On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans in the Reconstruction Congress […]
November 16, 2017
Kinder Institute Chair Jay Sexton at the WW I Museum & Memorial in K.C.
As part of the World War I Museum and Memorials November 2017 “America Joins the Fight” Symposium Kinder Institute Chair Jay Sexton and Chapman University Professor and Chair of History Jennifer Keene contributed to an opening night panel discussion of President Woodrow Willson’s vision for peace, the U.S. military’s preparedness in 1917, and domestic reactions […]
November 9, 2017
C-Span and the Kinder Institute
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 […]
October 5, 2017
"Constitutional Crisis or Consensus?": Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer on "The Open Mind"
On the October 1 episode of PBS’ “The Open Mind,” Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer spoke with host Alexander Heffner about the polarization of legal interpretation and civic discourse in contemporary American political society.
October 1, 2017
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to […]