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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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]