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The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and […]

For at least a decade, the lecture to undergraduates has gone like this: In an age of constitutional innovation, Massachusetts provided the spark with the ratification of its 1780 state constitution; the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia happily appropriated this practice post-drafting; and from then on out, ratification was the American way. As […]

In discussing the overarching goal for the recently published African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, 2021), co-editor and University of Washington Associate Professor of Political Science Jack Turner III pointed to how the tradition in the field has long been to divide Black thinkers into taxonomies of ideology: feminism, Marxism, […]

With baseball locked out, and with Columbians locked in at home due to snow, a trio of presenters took to Zoom for the Friday, February 4 installment of the Colloquium Series to speak on the nation’s pastime, from its early days to its present state. “Unwritten Rules: Flood v. Kuhn at 50” “It is revolting […]

Since its publication in 1952, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has been a touchstone for political thinkers, who find in the novel a means—various means—of reckoning with racial impasse. This is as true now as ever, Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Ferris Lupino pointed out in setting up his January 28, semester-opening colloquium, with competing readings emerging […]

Use the calendar link below for a one-stop-shop for news about all Spring 2022 Kinder Institute events, which kick off on January 28 and wrap up on May 6 and feature a pair of twice-postponed featured events: The April 7-9 meeting of the Association of British American 19th Century Historians and our May 3 Distinguished […]