Five decades of dedicated Governing Council members have shaped the Miller Center

Senior fellows bring outside expertise to the Center

Miller Center oral histories show up in surprising places

Experts offer a range of recommendations for rebuilding America's infrastructure

Watch an overview of the national security challenges facing a new president

Watch a recounting of what it might take to heal our partisan divides

David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography

Experts including Ibram X. Kendi, Larycia Hawkins, and Jason Johnson probe America's original sin of racism on this PrezFest 2019 panel

Historian Steve Gillon talks about his book on the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped debates about race and inequality in America

Compton Professor Melody Barnes examines how Americans have long struggled to strike a balance between government power, social order, and personal liberty

President Johnson called the Haggar clothing company to order some new pants, providing specific (and sometimes graphic) instructions on how they should be customized for him

14 months before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ruminates on the growing crisis in the East

Nixon orders his chief of staff to "see what we can do about" Jews in the federal government.

President Kennedy suffered from poor health and pain throughout his life. In this telephone call, Kennedy asks the White House physician to "send up a little extra medication."