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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 […]
November 3, 2022
RECAP: “The Culture of National Security Secrets in Modern America,” Colloquium w/ East Anglia Prof. Kaeten Mistry
That some state secrets must exist—think nuclear codes—is a given. Still, the very nature of state secrecy challenges core democratic principles regarding freedom of speech, free society, and open and transparent government. As East Anglia University Associate Professor of American History Kaeten Mistry explored in his October 14 talk at the Kinder Institute, justly and […]
September 13, 2022
Fall 2022 Undergraduate Deadlines
October and November are busy deadline months for undergraduates at the Kinder Institute, so we wanted to make sure to give everyone a one-stop-shop to help stay ahead of due dates (application links are included for each program). October 7 is the deadline to apply for the Spring 2023 Race & Politics in South Africa […]