President Milliken and Dr. Gage will explore the institutions, ideas, and debates that have shaped American life — and the important role higher education has played in that story.

A leading scholar of 20th-century U.S. history, Dr. Gage is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.”

UC Press shares books to help readers understand the forces that have shaped our country — and the work still ahead.