The newly released Gerald Ford oral history illuminates the post-Watergate presidency

The Miller Center convened experts to consider reforming the presidency

Presidential transition veteran Christopher Liddell says early planning is not presumptuous 

Inside: The Center's Conference on the American Presidency, release of the Gerald Ford Oral History Project, a new book on presidential transitions

Watch sessions from the Miller Center's Conference on the American presidency, held October 19–20, 2023

Identifying practical approaches to help democratic leaders resolve key challenges

An in-depth exploration of the relationship between free-market economic systems and the execution of self-government

Miller Center resources examine the history of domestic and global health care challenges

Experts offer a range of recommendations for rebuilding America's infrastructure

Watch an overview of the national security challenges facing a new president

Watch a recounting of what it might take to heal our partisan divides

David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography

Experts including Ibram X. Kendi, Larycia Hawkins, and Jason Johnson probe America's original sin of racism on this PrezFest 2019 panel

Historian Steve Gillon talks about his book on the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped debates about race and inequality in America

Compton Professor Melody Barnes examines how Americans have long struggled to strike a balance between government power, social order, and personal liberty

President Johnson called the Haggar clothing company to order some new pants, providing specific (and sometimes graphic) instructions on how they should be customized for him

14 months before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ruminates on the growing crisis in the East

Nixon orders his chief of staff to "see what we can do about" Jews in the federal government.

President Kennedy suffered from poor health and pain throughout his life. In this telephone call, Kennedy asks the White House physician to "send up a little extra medication."