Miller Center Presents

New public events series

Continuing the Miller Center’s 40-year tradition of hosting prominent voices on national and global issues

Featured events

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
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E pluribus unum? Race, religion, and American identity

Experts including Ibram X. Kendi, Larycia Hawkins, and Jason Johnson probe America's original sin of racism on this PrezFest 2019 panel
Steve Gillon
The Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism

Historian Steve Gillon talks about his book on the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped debates about race and inequality in America
miller center in blue
What happens when a president shatters norms?

The unprecedented nature of the Trump presidency has focused attention on the importance of traditions and norms in presidential leadership. Discussion with E. J. Dionne, Peter Wehner.
Topic
Supreme Court building
Supreme Court
Can we all just get along? The new president and the Supreme Court
Barbara Perry, Saikrishna Prakash, Sarah Wilson
silhouetted travelers
Immigration
Land of hope and dreams? The future of U.S. immigration policy
David Leblang, Anne C. Richard, Karen Tumlin
Elephant on American flag with Donald Trump waving
Political Parties and Movements
The post-election GOP: Where will conservatism go next?
Mary Kate Cary, Ron Christie, Michael Steele
The Smithsonian with the Washington Monument in the background
Domestic Affairs
History is now: What is America’s story?
Lonnie Bunch, Ken Burns, Amna Nawaz
Young John F Kennedy as congressman
Social Issues
JFK: Coming of age in the American century
Fredrik Logevall, Barbara Perry, Marc Selverstone
hands up in the air holding American flags
Domestic Affairs
'Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy'
Melody Barnes, Corey D. B. Walker, Thad Williamson, Barbara Brown Wilson
Joe Biden in a mask
Health
The Biden administration inherits the Covid-19 crisis
Guian McKee
J. Stephen Morrison, Margaret Foster Riley
graphic of multi-color silhouettes
Law and Justice
Race relations and criminal justice in the new year
Paul Butler, Kevin K. Gaines
monroe pardon 1822
The Presidency
Can the president pardon himself?
John Harrison, Brian Kalt, Bernadette Meyler, Micah Schwartzman
Trump supporters marching in support of far-right fascism
Domestic Affairs
Using the F-word: Fascist drift in America
Emily Gorcenski, Nicole Hemmer, Christopher Mathias, Jalane Schmidt