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Liberal, conservative professors find common ground in shared course

In a fun twist, the course featured regular Beatles-themed “She Said, She Said” segments any time Mary Kate Cary and Jennifer Lawless, both senior fellows at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, held alternate viewpoints.

Mary Kate Cary

Liberal, conservative professors find common ground in shared course

Jennifer Lawless

Remembering Ashton Carter

Ashton Carter passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday evening, October 24. His passing is, of course, a stunning loss for his family and friends, but it is also an enormous loss for the nation, writes Eric Edelman, practioner senior fellow at the university of Virginia's Miller Center.

Eric Edelman

Diplomacy, military power combined to settle superpower dispute over missiles in Cuba

“We’re in another crisis that could escalate to a nuclear war that involves the United States and a government in Moscow,” said Philip Zelikow, the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. “Those points aside, I don’t think the crises are very much alike.”

Philip Zelikow

60 years after Cuba crisis, nuclear war suddenly thinkable again

"Ukraine is significantly more important to America's allies than Cuba was," said Marc Selverstone, a Cold War historian and chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

Marc Selverstone

Georgetown alumna discusses inequities of emergency response with students

Elizabeth Ellcessor, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and senior faculty fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, spoke about disparities caused by many emergency prevention systems.

Elizabeth Ellcessor