Joe Biden at one year Presidential experts evaluate the 46th president's first year in office Watch the event Donald Trump at one year White House veterans and Miller Center scholars evaluate the 45th president's first 365 days Watch the event When human nature and Mother Nature collide Living in the Anthropocene Many scientists and observers see emerging a new epoch of geological history dominated by human influence—the “Anthropocene Epoch” The first citizen Modesty is required for a president to become a moral leader Changeup on climate change President Donald Trump has yet to fully address the challenge of climate change About the First Year Project The Miller Center's guide to helping a new president lead the most effective first year possible Selections from the Project One giant pothole America needs a robust, long-term plan to fix its infrastructure, asserts former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood The dangerous first year Watch a First Year video overview of the national security challenges confronting the new president Pre-K prerequisite The new president can ensure that every poor child in America gets two years of preschool Donald Trump, racial pioneer? Miller Center expert Douglas Blackmon argues that Donald Trump could surprise everyone and advance racial dialogue Featured Video Play Video First Year Project Introduction Watch this overview of the First Year Project Featured Publications Trump's First Year Crucible: The President's First Year Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism Presidential Greatness Search First Year Health Repeating LBJ's mistakes in 2016 Lyndon Johnson made a political choice on health care that Democratic presidential candidates shouldn't repeat Tony Lucadamo Miller Center The Presidency By the Book: John F. Kennedy Our First Year team of experts offers essential readings on the 35th president Marc Selverstone Miller Center Latin America and the Caribbean Looking backward, looking forward The history and the future of US-Cuban relations Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao Miller Center Finance and Banking The Power of Letting (Banks) Go Judge Glock argues the next president should bind himself Odysseus-like, against the siren song of bank bailouts Judge Glock Rutgers University The Presidency Abraham Lincoln’s Troubled First Year: Juggling War and Politics A lecture and discussion with UVA's renowned Civil War historian Gary Gallagher Thomas van der Voort Miller Center Taxation Taxes on the rich may change a lot in 2017 William Gale and Aaron Krupkin write about the next president's tax plans William Gale and Aaron Krupkin Brookings Institution Load More
Health Repeating LBJ's mistakes in 2016 Lyndon Johnson made a political choice on health care that Democratic presidential candidates shouldn't repeat Tony Lucadamo Miller Center
The Presidency By the Book: John F. Kennedy Our First Year team of experts offers essential readings on the 35th president Marc Selverstone Miller Center
Latin America and the Caribbean Looking backward, looking forward The history and the future of US-Cuban relations Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao Miller Center
Finance and Banking The Power of Letting (Banks) Go Judge Glock argues the next president should bind himself Odysseus-like, against the siren song of bank bailouts Judge Glock Rutgers University
The Presidency Abraham Lincoln’s Troubled First Year: Juggling War and Politics A lecture and discussion with UVA's renowned Civil War historian Gary Gallagher Thomas van der Voort Miller Center
Taxation Taxes on the rich may change a lot in 2017 William Gale and Aaron Krupkin write about the next president's tax plans William Gale and Aaron Krupkin Brookings Institution