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
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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
Europe
Europe
Perspectives on the U.S. and Europe: Ambassadors of the Visegrad Group
Ivan Korčok, Hynek Kmoníček, László Szabó, Piotr Wilczek, Stephen Mull
Inside Camelot
The Presidency
Inside Camelot: The untold story of JFK's valet
Nick Drake, Alfred Reaves, David Throup, Barbara Perry
Corey Booker whispers to Elizabeth Warren; Senator Blumenthal in the foreground
Political Parties and Movements
Future of the Democratic Party
Nicole Hemmer
Dan Balz, Jennifer Lawless, Chris Lu
End of the Korean War
Asia
To end the Korean War? Peace on the Peninsula
Byoung-Kon Jun, Jae-Jung Suh, Philip Zelikow
President Trump sits in the Oval Office
The Presidency
Presidents' Day: Trump and the American presidency
Sidney Milkis, Michael Nelson, Barbara Perry
Doctors preforming surgery in a dimly lit operating room
Health
The conservative case for universal health care
Guian McKee
Avik Roy
FDR
The Presidency
The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
Barbara Perry
David Woolner
Race in the Decade of Obama
Race and Racism
Race in the decade since Obama
Melody Barnes, Kevin Gaines, Lauretta Charlton
Edward and Jacqueline Kennedy
Governance
Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History
Barbara Perry
Melody Barnes
Anwar Sadat, President Carter, and Menachem Begin sign Camp David Accords
The Presidency
President Carter: The White House years
Stuart Eizenstat, Russell Riley