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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 […]

The Kinder Institute is currently accepting applications for a Summer 2022 Graduate Assistant in Oxford, England, whose primary responsibilities are to assist with the delivery of the Oxford leg of the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics while also using the opportunity abroad to conduct independent research. Details of the position, which runs from July […]

On behalf of everyone at the Kinder Institute, we offer a hearty congratulations to the students below, who will head east to D.C. in June as members of the eighth cohort of our Kinder Scholars Summer Program. Jackson Bailey (Constitutional Democracy) Lauren Bayne (Secondary Education, Political Science) Anna Cowden (Journalism, Constitutional Democracy) Grace Cunningham (Environmental […]

Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment […]

Given the strength—and to some degree the mysteriousness—of the subtitle for his most recent book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, University of South Carolina McCausland Professor of History Woody Holton noted in beginning his November 11 lecture at the State Historical Society of Missouri this his goal for the talk […]