Join the Miller Center and Southern Methodist University for a special screening of the director's cut of the VPM/Miller Center documentary "Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team." A discussion will immediately follow the screening featuring two experts from the film: Jeffrey A. Engel, director of SMU's Center for Presidential History, and Barbara Perry, director of presidential […]
While on his frequent business trips around the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bob Damron wanted to find bars and other locales to meet other men like him. A gay man, Damron sought friends, companions, and safety at friendly businesses in the various cities he visited. He began jotting down the […]
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught. Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang […]
UPDATE, 1/8/2021: With regret, we must postpone this upcoming webinar with Derek Chollet. Derek is deeply involved with the foreign policy transition team for President-Elect Biden and can no longer make the scheduled time. We will update this page with a rescheduled date and time as soon as we are able. Thank you for your […]
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, two things are clear: we are in an unprecedented constitutional crisis, and President Trump is at the center of it. In the middle of this crisis, you (like most Americans) may find yourself asking questions you don't know the answer to: What is going on? Has […]
A Preview Interview with Thomas Balcerski: How will the election of 2020 be remembered by history? What, if any, are its historical antecedents, and to what degree is it unprecedented? And, as we look ahead to Inauguration Day, what can history tell us about the next four years? Join us as we welcome presidential historian […]
A new biography published about George Washington is unlike any other. Described as “form-shattering and myth-crushing,” “keen and savage,” as well as “spirited and engaging,” historian Alexis Coe’s “You Never Forget Your First” chronicles the life of our first president from a 21st century and “decidedly feminist” perspective. Coe says, “I set out to write […]
A Preview Interview with Marcia Chatelain From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on […]
A Preview Interview with Dr. Maria K. John The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major, sometimes fatal shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare system. Through a conversation about the recent history of […]
A Preview Interview with Amy Offner The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction […]
