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SUMMARY:America in the World at 250: A View from a Bloody Borderland
LOCATION:LBJ - SRH 3.122
DESCRIPTION:As we conclude the nation’s semiquincentennial\, at a moment w
 hen the American experiment once again teeters on the precipice of politi
 cal violence\, historian Jay Sexton reflects on the history of a region t
 hat has embodied the headlines of the United States at 250: our constitut
 ional democracy failed before it triumphed\, and it has been marked\, at 
 every stage\, by political violence and war.\n\nFree and open to the publ
 ic.\n\nLight snacks provided!\n\nRSVP to Attend Here\n\nSpeaker:\n\nJay S
 exton\n\nJay Sexton is the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional 
 Democracy\, Professor of History\, and Director of the Kinder Institute.\
 n\nA native of Salina\, Kansas\, Sexton returned to the Midwest to the Un
 iversity of Missouri in 2016 after spending the better part of two decade
 s at Oxford University in England. He started in Oxford as a grad student
  Marshall Scholar and worked his way up to being Director of the Rotherme
 re American Institute (RAI) and\, upon his departure\, being elected a Di
 stinguished Fellow of the RAI and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi Co
 llege.\n\nSexton specializes in the political and economic history of the
  nineteenth century. His research situates the United States in its inter
 national context\, particularly as it related to the dominant global stru
 cture of the era\, the British Empire. His most recent book\, A Nation Fo
 rged by Crisis: A New American History (Basic Books\, 2018)\, argues that
  international forces have shaped the course of U.S. history during its g
 reatest mo\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/e7d8270c-4e84-48bb-a8dc-fc2f063
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