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A big congratulations to the MU Political Science Professors Bill Horner and James Endersby for being selected as recipients of the 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award for their co-authored Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation, the first title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy book […]

Through a combination of expert historical and contextual commentary and a concise apparatus that deploys diagrams and tables to summarize key concepts, Dyer and Casey have crafted the most efficient and engaging text for understanding the structure of Missouri’s government, the provisions and politics of its lengthy constitution, and the relevance that this document has […]

Courtesy of expert Mizzou Creative videographer Mike Boles and a wonderful cast of students, we’re thrilled to provide you a brief glimpse into a day in the life of a Kinder Institute undergrad

As part of the Pulitzer Prize’s Centennial Campfires Initiative, University of California-Davis Professor of History Eric Rauchway delivered a September 7, 2016, lecture at the University of Missouri examining the causes and consequences of the Great Depression through the lens of Charlie Ross’ 1931 Pulitzer-winning St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, “The Country’s Plight.”

For the Kinder Institute’s third annual Constitution Day Lecture, University of Michigan Associate Professor of Political Science Mariah Zeisberg gave a September 20 talk entitled, “Our Global Constitution: U.S. Imperialism and the Separation of Powers.”

Presidential inaugurations always bring with them spirited discussion and debate about the nature, character, and aspirations of American democracy, and it is safe to say that this year’s was no exception to this rule. These kinds of conversations are, to be sure, of the utmost importance—vital to national health and progress—and while they naturally crescendo […]