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Hearty congratulations are due to University of Oklahoma Assistant Professor of Classics & Letters Andrew Porwancher, whose John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law, the second title in the Kinder Institute and University of Missouri Press’ Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph series, was one of two books to receive […]

Electing the House is the first book-length study to explore how the US came to adopt the single-member district system, how it solidified into a seemingly permanent fixture of American government, and whether it performs well by the standards it was intended to achieve. Dow traces the history of the present system from its origins […]

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 […]

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.”