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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 […]

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 […]

There is an inherent difficulty in writing the history of the Haitian Revolution: How do you channel the thought and visions of the enslaved people who imagined and enacted the Revolution when they left very few documents behind? Put more optimistically, alternate pathways for accessing the intellectual and political worlds of the era must be […]

After delivering a Thursday night lecture tightly focused on theatre and revolution in Saint-Domingue, University of Virginia John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy Laurent Dubois zoomed out in his October 29 presentation at the Kinder Institute’s Friday Colloquium Series, providing an overview of a new book project that […]