An op-ed by Nicole Hemmer, a 2008 Miller Center Fellow, titled "Long live the Democrats? Not so fast." was published in the Christian Science Monitor on June 23, 2009.

The June 2009 issue of the Journal of American History features articles by two former Miller Center Fellows: "The Free and Open People's Market': Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange" by 2005 Fellow Julia Ott, and "Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Democracy in the Cold War" by 2006 Fellow Joy Rohde.

The Charlottesville Daily Progress previewed the June 19 BackStory taping at the Miller Center.

Brian Balogh's piece, "Americans Love Government – As Long as They Can't See It," headlines the History News Network on June 15.

Barry Rabe's work on government and climate change, including the 2008 National Survey on American Public Opinion on Climate Change and Policy Options, was highlighted extensively in "Beyond Abstraction: Moving The Public on Climate Action," in Yale Environment 360 on May 28.

The 2008–09 Fellows presented their work at the 2009 Spring Fellowship Conference May 7–8. The conference will also feature a manuscript review of Brian Balogh's A Government Out of Sight (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Dan Ernst's Legal History Blog takes notice.

Brian Balogh was a guest on "Charlottesville Right Now" on WINA-1070AM on May 6, discussing Americans' attitudes toward big government.

BackStory is being featured as a "staff pick" on iTunes. The Mother's Day show was featured in a blog at Babble.com.

2002–03 Miller Center Fellow Jamie Morin has been nominated by President Obama to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management.

Public Service Fellow Casey Raymond has been accepted to the White House Internship Program.

2003–04 Miller Center fellow Kimberly Phillips-Fein's book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, was published by W.W. Norton this past winter.

"The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right," a book by 2004–05 Miller Center Fellow Jon Shields, received a great review in the New York Times (April 24, 2009)

Rob Rakove, a 2007–08 Miller Center Fellow, offers some historical perspective on President Obama's handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a Columbus Dispatch op-ed, Handshake sent message to potential allies (April 24, 2009)

David Leblang joined a group on NPR's "Tell Me More" to discuss the news coverage of the tax protest "tea parties" on April 17, 2009.

Brian Balogh talked about A Government Out of Sight on WMRA (103.5 Charlottesville), an NPR station in central Virginia, April 16, 2009.

Jeff Legro weighed in on how President Obama handled the crisis stemming from Somali pirates taking an American cargo ship captain hostage. (npr.org, April 13, 2009)

The American Journal of Political Science has published an article, "Agency Problems, the 17th Amendment, and Representation in the Senate, by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Sean Gailmard of the University of California, Berkeley.

Sidney Milkis, Assistant Director for Academic Programs, and Jesse H. Rhodes, 2007 Miller Center Fellow, have published an article, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and the Future of the "New American Party System," in The Forum, published by The Berkeley Electronic Press, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Article 7

Brian Balogh's A Government Out of Sight is being published by Cambridge University Press. He discussed the book at an April 10 Forum. More information: Cambridge University Press release

The H-Diplo discussion network has posted a Roundtable Review of Jeff Legro and Mel Leffler's To Lead the World (Oxford University Press, 2008). H-Diplo roundtables are panel scholarly reviews on new and notable works in the field of foreign relations and international history. To Lead the World emerged from the Miller Center's After the Bush Doctrine conference in June 2007.

Rachel Loeffler, a 2007–08 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the Miller Center, argues in the March/April 2009 Foreign Affairs that financial sanctions against Iran and North Korea could be successful -- if global banks agree to share the risk.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded BackStory a substantial development grant. Coverage: UVA Today (March 16, 2009); Daily Progress (March 19, 2009); Staunton News Leader (March 19, 2009)

Brian Balogh presented a portion of his forthcoming book, A Government out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, on March 5 Boston University. Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History at MIT, wrote about the talk in his Legal History Blog (March 6, 2009).

The 2009–10 Miller Center National Fellowship application process has closed. Applicants will be notified via e-mail regarding their status by late March. The Miller Center will announce recipients in April 2009.

Brian Balogh on the Bush legacy (WCAV-TV, Jan. 15, 2009), Obama's inauguration (RTD, Jan. 17, 2009, and UAE's The National (Jan. 20, 2009), Obama's style (News-Virginian, Jan. 19, 2009), and the speech (Dow Jones Newswires, Jan. 20, 2009)

2008 Miller Center Fellow Nicole Hemmer, whose work is a history of the conservative media, wrote an op-ed, Liberals, too, should reject the Fairness Doctrine, published by the Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 25, 2008. She discussed the op-ed on Relevant Radio's "Morning Air" program on Dec. 3, 2008.

GAGE Faculty Associate Vesla Weaver explained her research on politics and race in the context of Barack Obama's victory (C-Ville Weekly, Nov. 25, 2008)

BackStory with the American History Guys, featuring GAGE Chair Brian Balogh has won a prize from the Federation of State Humanities Councils for being one of the nation's best humanities projects. The honor was picked up in the Daily Progress Nov. 19 and UVA Today Nov. 17, 2008. The History Guys were guests on WMRA's "Insight" (Audio) Nov. 17, 2008

Sid Milkis, Assistant Director for Academic Programs, was quoted in an article about President Bush's legacya> (The National -- United Arab Emirates, Nov. 19).

Research Assistant Mark Nevin published an article called The Suburban Sunbelt and the Making and Unmaking of the Conservative Republican Majority on the History News Network Nov. 17, 2008.

GAGE Faculty Associate Melvyn P. Leffler has won the 2008 AHA Beer Prize for his book, For the Soul of Mankind. News of his award was featured in C-Ville Weekly.

GAGE Chair Brian Balogh is quoted discussing the environmental politics, past and present, of nuclear power in a Cavalier Daily column on Nov. 6, 2008.

On Election Day, Forbes' Jon Bruner asks Should We Pay Attention to Election Polls?, and finds great insight and perspective about public opinion polling and its effect on democracy in GAGE's Has Polling Killed Democracy? conference in April.

Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations reviewed To Lead the World: After the Bush Doctrine in the November/December 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs. GAGE Faculty Associates Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro edited the volume of 11 essays by the country's foremost foreign policy thinkers, which was published in Summer 2008 by Oxford University Press.

BackStory with the American History Guys has gained some national broadcast traction, picked up in Boston and Connecticut (UVA Today, Oct. 30, 2008)

GAGE Chair Brian Balogh talked about a possible revival of nuclear power in the New York Times (reprinted in the International Herald Tribune) on Oct. 23, 2008.

BackStory with the American History Guys, featuring Brian Balogh, was profiled in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Oct. 19, 2008.

2006 Miller Center Fellow Derek Webb's op-ed "Civic Education for the Entire Brain" will be reprinted in Leadership Magazine, the journal of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The op-ed originally ran in Education Week in September 2007.

GAGE Chair Brian Balogh helped Business Week compile a pre-convention look at how presidential candidates have used technology to get out the vote.

2007 Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee, with Michael Lipsky and Cathie Jo Martin, has written Outside the Big Box, a piece published in the July/August 2008 Boston Review. Their article argues that small business isn't well represented politically, particularly on the issue of health care.