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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 […]

The great fallacy of scholarship on the origins of American politics, Franklin & Marshall Professor of History Van Gosse noted in opening his October 15 colloquium at the Kinder Institute, is the idea that, at the time of the founding, only propertied white men could vote. No! In New Jersey, for example, women could vote […]

Making a return visit to Columbia, after being one of the Kinder Forum’s first speakers back in Fall 2014, University of Iowa Professor Colin Gordon used his October 8 colloquium on the fourth floor of Jesse Hall to introduce the next phase of his research on the history of racial segregation in Greater St. Louis. […]

If social science theories often try to flatten ambiguities in political identity, the subject of Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Tara Ginnane’s September 24th talk—the rise of American external voting policy and the new ideas about national membership and belonging that came with it—allows these ambiguities room to take on appropriate significance. The ‘American’ designation for […]

Mizzou undergraduates of any major can examine the history and legacies of racialized rule in South Africa through HIST/CNST_DEM/BL_STU 4835: Race & Politics in South Africa, a three-credit hour class that includes an intersession study abroad component hosted at University of the Western Cape, in Cape Town, from January 5 – January 15, 2022, that […]