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Collage of prominent guests to Miller Center events: President Clinton, Karl Rove, Madeleine Albright

Nationally renowned speakers

Politicians, journalists, and government officials frequently participate in Miller Center panel discussions

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Probing questions

UVA students are enthusiastic participants in Miller Center events throughout the year

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Robust debate, without fear or favor

Miller Center speakers address the nation's most pressing problems—sometimes eliciting protests

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February 04, 2011 06:00 AM

Robert Morris and the Nationalists of 1781

  • Charles Rappleye

January 31, 2011 06:00 AM

Liberation: A New Look at the End of World War II in Europe

  • William Hitchcock

January 28, 2011 08:30 AM

'Let the Word Go Forth': The Rhetoric, Symbols, and Images of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier

January 28, 2011 06:00 AM

The Making of the (First Celebrity) President: 1960

  • Michael Duffy

January 24, 2011 06:00 AM

Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists

  • Scott Atran

January 21, 2011 07:30 AM

Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

  • Thomas J. Sugrue

January 21, 2011 06:00 AM

Progress and Grand Strategy in the Afghan War

  • Anthony H Cordesman

January 19, 2011 06:00 AM

King: In His Own Words

January 17, 2011 06:00 AM

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  • Isabel Wilkerson

December 10, 2010 06:00 AM

The Fall Term of the U.S. Supreme Court

  • Jan Crawford

December 09, 2010 12:30 PM

Growing the Guggenheim: The Politics of Art

  • Peter Lawson-Johnston

December 03, 2010 07:30 AM

From Political Theology to Vernacular Prophecy: Rethinking Redemption and Politics

  • George Shulman

December 03, 2010 06:00 AM

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  • Michelle Alexander

November 19, 2010 06:00 AM

Brazil in the World

  • Paulo Sotero Marques

November 16, 2010 12:30 PM

Electricity: Invisible Threat to America's Economic and National Security

  • Thomas A. Farrell

State of the U.S. Military

November 15, 2010 06:00 AM

Wired for War

  • Peter Warren Singer

November 12, 2010 06:00 AM

Is Immigration Reform Politically Possible Under the Obama Administration?

  • Edward Schumacher-Matos

November 08, 2010 06:00 AM

Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union

  • William W. Freehling

November 05, 2010 08:30 AM

Weapons of Terror, Weapons of Peace: Nuclear Policies & Politics since the Cold War

  • Professor Francis Gavin

November 01, 2010 07:00 AM

A Survey of the Situation in the Middle East

  • W. Patrick Lang

October 29, 2010 07:00 AM

An Historian Looks at Jimmy Carter

  • Julian E. Zelizer

October 25, 2010 07:00 AM

Food Security, National Security

  • Alan Bjerga

October 22, 2010 07:00 AM

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

  • Jeff Sharlet

October 18, 2010 07:00 AM

How to Save the Schools

  • E. D. Hirsch

October 17, 2010 08:00 PM

Citizens United and American Democracy

  • Sidney M. Milkis

October 15, 2010 01:30 PM

Gulf Oil Spill

  • David J. Hayes

October 11, 2010 08:00 AM

2010 Caplin Conference on the World Economy

October 11, 2010 07:00 AM

The Significance of Africa to U.S. Global Policy

  • Michael A. Battle

October 08, 2010 07:00 AM

Is there an Obama Doctrine?

  • Peter Beinart

October 04, 2010 07:00 AM

Foreign Policy Realism and the Republican Party

  • Colin Dueck

October 04, 2010 06:00 AM

Press Conference: Transportation Report

  • Gerald L Baliles

October 01, 2010 07:00 AM

Trials of the Century

  • Jack Ford