The Center for Presidential History

Aid, Alliance, and Eighty Years: Reassessing the Marshall PlanDate: April 14–15, 2027Location: Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TXConvenors: Jeffrey A. Engel and Kaete O’Connell, SMU’s Center fo...

Since 2002, the UNCW History Department has hosted an annual lecture series established to honor two lifelong learners and friends of the department, Virginia and Derrick Sherman.

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and intensifi...

Former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are among thousands honoring civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson at his memorial service in Chicago. Senior Fellow at SMU's Center for Presi...

The president’s penchant for renaming things after himself is unprecedented in American politics.

The Jervis ForumH-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies ForumReview 168Sam Lebovic, State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime. Basic Books, 2023. ISBN...