SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
New Forum Season Begins
A new season of the Miller Center's Forum speaker series kicks off on Monday with remarks by 9/11 Commission Director and former Miller Center Director Philip Zelikow. Other upcoming speakers include former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Sept. 10 and Politico’s John F. Harris and Jonathan Martin on Sept. 17. Please stop by if you're in Charlottesville, or you can watch online live right here. Forums also air on PBS stations across the country. Click here for a full schedule.
In The News...
Rallies, led by Fox News' Glenn Beck and the Rev. Al Sharpton, will take place in D.C. on Saturday, the anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. On August 28, 1963, President John Kennedy met with civil-rights leaders after the speech. Click here to listen to their conversation.
Program Highlights
Brantly Womack's edited volume, China's Rise in Historical Perspective, has been published with Rowman and Littlefield. The volume emanated from the Miller Center's Spring 2009 China Series.
The Miller Center has released its interim report Old Media, New Media and the Challenge to Democratic Governance. Click to read the report. Contact Paul Martin for more information.
Former Secretaries of Transportation Norman Mineta and Sam Skinner led the inaugural David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference.
Events
The Miller Center hosted the Presidential Sites and Libraries Conference in June 2010. Conference participants included presidential sites and libraries directors, scholars, media, and representatives of institutions engaged in the lives and works of U.S. presidents. Speakers included Michael Beschloss, Joseph Ellis, Jon Meacham, and Annette Gordon-Reed, and Miller Center scholars.
Washington D.C. Office
Expanding from its base in Charlottesville, the Miller Center has opened a Washington, D.C. office. Its location at 1900 K St. brings the Miller Center closer to national policymakers and will help the Center build on its work developing practical policy solutions as well as facilitate its unparalleled study of the American presidency.
MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION
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The Miller Center Foundation is raising $39.5 million to advance the mission of the Miller Center of Public Affairs through enhanced programs, facilities and outreach. Support American democracy by helping to make the Miller Center a national meeting place like no other.
Campaign for the Miller Center
The Miller Center Foundation is raising $39.5 million to advance the mission of the Miller Center of Public Affairs through enhanced programs, facilities and outreach. Support American democracy by helping to make the Miller Center a national meeting place like no other.
