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October 8, 2015
Kinder Foundation Gift Announcement
It’s with great pleasure, and greater gratitude, that we get to share the news that the Kinder Foundation, a family philanthropic foundation started by Rich and Nancy Kinder, has pledged $25 million to the University of Missouri to support programming at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy for years (and generations) to come. An MU […]
April 6, 2015
British Imperialism and ‘The Tribal Question’: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in the Middle East
British Imperialism and ‘The Tribal Question’ reconstructs the history of Britain’s presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism and of the region’s past. It tells the story of what happened when the British Empire and Bedouin communities met on the desert frontiers between […]
May 6, 2013
The First Presidential Contest: The Election of 1796 and the Beginnings of American Democracy
2014 Mount Vernon George Washington Book Prize Finalist This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar—parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the political mores of the day forbade […]