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Sponsored by the History Department at William Woods University in Fulton, MO, the three-part “Hail to the Chief” lecture series will explore the historical relationship between American presidents and American character from the founding through the Kennedy administration. The series kicks off on January 20 at noon, with William Woods Assistant Professor of History Craig […]

From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy’s allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s—his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve Watts argues, JFK was tailor-made for […]

Professor Jay Sexton delivered the Kinder Institute’s inaugural chair lecture on November 10, 2016, examining the external factors that shaped the American founding in a talk entitled “U.S. Constitutional Democracy and the World.” A full recap of the lecture can be found here.

Filmed during Fall 2015 as part of our video series with Newsy, Political Science Professor and Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer gave a brief interview on the protection of, as well as the limits placed on, hate speech under the 1st Amendment.

As part of our ongoing relationship with Newsy, Prof. Marvin Overby sat down with Eugene Daniels to discuss the history underlying African American voters’ loyalty to the Democratic Party.

Co-authored with Micah J. Watson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Politics & Religion at Union University, C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law debunks the commonly held assumption that Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs by exploring “the contours of Lewis’ multi-faceted Christian engagement with political philosophy […]