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January 24, 2023
Introducing Ruth Adesanya, Inaugural Kinder-BrANCH Fellow in the MA in Atlantic History & Politics
In the summer of 2023, we welcome our first Kinder-BrANCH Fellow to the MA in Atlantic History & Politics. Ruth Adesanya is currently reading History at the University of Warwick in the UK, and she recently shared her thoughts on joining the program and coming to Mizzou with Kinder Professor of British History and Director […]
January 17, 2023
Spring 2023 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live
Sneaking in just under the beginning-of-semester deadline, we’re delighted to reveal the Spring 2023 Kinder Institute events calendar. Use the link below for details on everything from Friday colloquia, to MRSEAH meetings, to community lectures. Spring 2023 Kinder Institute Events Calendar See individual event posts (here) for links to attend lectures virtually, via YouTube or […]
December 6, 2022
RECAP: “Reflections on a Global History of the American Civil War,” 12/2 Colloquium w/ Prof. Jörg Nagler
In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, Friedrich Schiller penned “What Is and to What End Do We Study Universal History?” A child of the enlightenment, Schiller wrote about history progressing toward higher moral ground and the improvement of mankind, and away from a Eurocentric vision of time. History, Prof. Jörg Nagler noted […]
November 8, 2022
November 1 Kinder Foundation Grant Announcement
November 1 was an historic day at the Kinder Institute, with the university announcing an additional $25 million grant from the Kinder Foundation of Houston, Texas, to support the Institute’s continued growth. Our thanks to Rich and Nancy Kinder, and everyone at the Foundation, for their inestimable generosity, and you can read more about the […]
November 3, 2022
RECAP: “Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom,” Colloquium w/ Prof. Kathryn Olivarius
New Orleans was, by a decent margin, antebellum America’s deadliest city, the nation’s ‘necropolis’ as Stanford historian Kathryn Olivarius dubbed it in the title to her 2022 Harvard University Press monograph. Every three years, 8% of the city’s population died, a vastly disproportionate (and, as we would see, excessively disproportionate) number of them because of […]
November 3, 2022
RECAP: “The Politics of Slavery and Black Expatriation in 19th-Century America,” Colloquium w/ Prof. Andy Hammann
At first glance, the title of Kinder Institute Postdoc Andy Hammann’s October 21 talk seems equal parts troubling and incredible. A title for a talk that shouldn’t exist. It’s hard to believe that an expatriation movement so thoroughly wrong, absurd, and impractical ever came to be. It’s hard to believe that this movement existed in […]