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At the Miller Center, we believe that opposing positions can both have merit; that we can investigate questions of fact and discuss questions of opinion; that we can be open to changing our minds; and that our political system benefits from compromise. That’s why every year we bring together Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue among scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens.

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June 16, 2006 08:00 AM

Taking Sex Differences Seriously

  • Steven Rhoads

June 09, 2006 08:00 AM

The Social Security Reform Debacle: Were Lessons Learned, or Does This Foretell the Future of Other

  • Jackie Calmes

June 03, 2006 08:00 AM

Forgive Us Our Press Passes: America and Its Media

  • Daniel Schorr

May 22, 2006 08:00 AM

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy

  • Francis Fukuyama

May 17, 2006 07:00 AM

Room for Growth: President Lincoln's Early Stumbles

  • William W. Freehling

May 08, 2006 07:00 AM

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

  • Jon B Meacham

May 05, 2006 06:45 AM

Compromise in Comparative Perspective: The Environment and Labor - 10:45-12:15 p.m.

  • Elisabeth Clemens

  • Shamira Gelbman

  • Marc Landy

  • Caroline Lee

May 05, 2006 05:15 AM

Redeeming Democracy in 20th Century America - 9:15-10:45 a.m.

  • Meg Jacobs

  • Gary Laderman

  • Stephanie Muravchik

  • Julia Ott

May 04, 2006 10:00 AM

Manuscript Review of Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty - 2:00-4:30 p.m.

  • Thomas J. Sugrue

  • Risa Goluboff

  • Daryl Scott

  • John Skrentny

May 04, 2006 07:15 AM

The New Urban Reform: Decentralizing Political Power - 11:15-12:45 p.m.

  • Martha Biondi

  • Thomas J. Sugrue

  • Heather Lewis

  • Suleiman Osman

May 04, 2006 05:30 AM

Building Organizational Capacities: Political Parties and Refugee Policies - 9:30-11:00 a.m.

  • Daniel Galvin

  • Akira Iriye

  • Sidney M. Milkis

  • Stephen Porter

May 02, 2006 01:30 PM

Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad

  • Kenneth A Osgood

April 28, 2006 07:00 AM

The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts

  • John Bridgeland

April 24, 2006 07:00 AM

Defiant Superpower: The Price of American Hegemony

  • Donald E Nuechterlein

April 14, 2006 08:00 AM

Lyndon Johnson, Rural Texas, and the New Deal

  • Sarah Phillips

April 13, 2006 01:30 PM

Brushes, Canvases, and the Lost Cause: The Ascendancy of Confederate Themes in Recent Civil War Art

  • Gary W. Gallagher

April 07, 2006 07:00 AM

Soft Power as an Instrument of Diplomacy in an Age of Terrorism

  • Alan Schechter

April 03, 2006 05:00 AM

Critical Intelligence, Communications and Response

  • Margaret Warner

March 31, 2006 07:00 AM

Abiding Interests: Mobilization, Bias, and the Development of the Washington Lobbying Community.

  • Richard Harris

  • Daniel Tichenor

March 28, 2006 11:00 AM

Ideas, Policy, and Politics: The Role of Independent Research in Partisan Times

  • Strobe Talbott

March 24, 2006 06:00 AM

The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch

  • Jules Witcover

March 22, 2006 01:30 PM

Fighting World Hunger

  • Sen. George McGovern

March 18, 2006 09:45 AM

Senator Edward M.Kennedy

  • Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

March 17, 2006 07:00 AM

Contours of American Major Party Factionalism: Causal Explanations and Periodicity

  • Howard Reiter

March 15, 2006 06:00 AM

Celebrating 45 Years of the Peace Corps

  • Anthony Essaye

March 03, 2006 06:00 AM

Supreme Court Report

  • Jan Crawford

February 24, 2006 07:00 AM

Rebels on the Right: Conservatives as Outsiders From William F. Buckley, Jr. to Operation Rescue

  • Grace Hale

February 24, 2006 06:00 AM

Soldiers to Citizens: The GI Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation

  • Suzanne Mettler

February 20, 2006 06:00 AM

Fugitives: Young Iranians Confront the Collapse of the Reform Movement

  • Laura Secor

February 17, 2006 07:00 AM

The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy

  • Jacob S Hacker

February 15, 2006 01:00 PM

Katrina Revisited

  • Kent Germany

February 08, 2006 06:00 AM

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

  • John C Bogle