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
Donald Trump with hand waving
The Presidency
‘After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency’
Robert Bauer Jack Goldsmith Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Painting of George Washington and his cabinet
The Presidency
‘The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution’
Lindsay Chervinsky, Chris Lu, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Globe made of flags
Foreign Affairs
‘Re-engage the world’: Rethinking U.S. national security strategy
Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, Michèle Flournoy
A storm over the White House
The Presidency
The state of the American presidency
Jamelle Bouie, Sidney Milkis, James Morone
Members of NATO and their flags surround the NATO symbol
Foreign Affairs
NATO and the future of U.S. alliances
Joshua Alley, Philip Breedlove, Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, James Goldgeier, Todd Sechser
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