UVA Club of the Treasure Coast: An Evening with Barbara Perry

George, Martha, and Mary Washington were all British citizens in colonial America. What prompted them to support the revolutionary cause and break from the UK? All alumni, families, and friends are invited to join the UVA Club of the Treasure Coast for this intriguing discussion of the United States’ First Mother, First Lady, and Father of Our Country with Barbara Perry (Grad Arts & Sciences ’86) as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Our reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the talk at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, please contact Hank Dudgeon (Col '95) at hankdudgeon71@gmail.com, or Rachel Clark (Col '01) at rachelharris35@gmail.com.

About our speaker:

Barbara A. Perry is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the UVA’s Miller Center, where she co-directs the Presidential Oral History Program. She has authored or edited 17 books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights and civil liberties. Perry has conducted more than 160 interviews for the Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies and directed the Edward Kennedy Oral History Project. She served as an award-winning U.S. Supreme Court fellow and has worked for both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate. A frequent media commentator, her forthcoming book is Reconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt. To read more, click here.

About the Miller Center:

The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. The center injects its scholarship and recommendations inside Washington, DC directly to the nation's leaders. Founded in 1975 through the philanthropy of Burkett Miller, a 1914 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and former Miller & Martin partner, the center fosters civil and intellectual dialogue among diverse scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens. The Miller Center believes that opposing positions can both have merit and that investigating questions of fact and discussing questions of opinion can lead to enlightened and beneficial compromise and public policy. To read more, click here.