Jack Miller meets at the University of Chicago with 50 professors from campuses across the country to discuss the lack of civic education at the undergraduate college level.

Pilot projects launched to strengthen education in America’s founding principles and history, including our first Miller Summer Institute held at Princeton University in 2005.

Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History incorporated as a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) charity with a community of 125 professors and eight campus partner programs.

JMC establishes an academic advisory council comprised of leading scholars in political science and history.

Postdoctoral fellowship program launched to offer more courses on American history and political thought to college students and to help new scholars gain experience to be competitive in the academic job market.

JMC and Liberty Fund facilitate book placements for JMC partner programs on campuses to provide collections of books on American history and political thought for use by students.

Chicago Initiative launched to foster collaboration between area faculty and colleges to strengthen civic education in the Chicago region.

JMC scholars present papers at our first Fellows Conference in 2009 on American political thought at Georgetown University, later leading to a new college textbook and several peer-reviewed articles published in major academic journals.

JMC supports the American political thought related group at the American Political Science Association (APSA), establishing panels at APSA conferences to enrich teaching and research for scholars. First panel is held.

JMC partners with Roosevelt University to host our first summer High School Teachers Academy, helping prepare teachers to educate their students on the
history and principles of the American Founding.

JMC launches the Constitution Day Initiative, helping colleges provide substantive programming on Constitution Day, Sept. 17, engaging thousands of students across the country in historical and contemporary constitutional issues.

JMC partners with the Huntington Library for a two-year collaborative research project on the roles of science, religion and politics in shaping the American Founding.

University of Chicago Press and University of Notre Dame in partnership with JMC, launch "American Political Thought," an academic journal providing a much-needed venue for scholarly work devoted to the subject.

JMC conducts first Jeffersonian Seminar in Chicago as part of a series that fosters faculty collaboration and develops academic communities in specific regions around the country, strengthening our national network.

JMC launches the Commercial Republic Initiative, a national project to enrich the study of the institutions and ideas that have shaped America’s scientific, legal and economic order at leading universities around the country, from MIT to UCLA.

JMC hosts 10th annual Miller National Summit on Higher Education, bringing together professors from campuses around the country to focus on practical steps to advance education in American political thought and history.

Opportunity Fund established to help expand carefully selected campus programs with the most potential for success, including Yale, Penn, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and UVA.

JMC has built a national community of more than 800 professors on hundreds of campuses across the country and has helped to launch or grow 58 major campus programs dedicated to advancing education in America’s founding principles and history.

JMC expanded its work to the high school level to ensure that students receive a much-needed foundation in American history and politics to guide their civic participation.

After three years of work in Chicago, surveys of all government teachers found that their use of Abraham Lincoln’s writings had increased by 46%, the Federalist Papers by 17%, and other writings by the Founders by 25%.

With the launch of the Partner Program Initiative, JMC set a goal of adding 55 new campus programs within five years.

JMC joined two other leading civic education organizations, the Ashbrook Center and Bill of Rights Institute, to form the American Civics and History Initiative to help teachers cultivate the next generation of citizens.

In August 2021, JMC reached a major milestone with a record 1,000+ fellows that have participated in our programming. These like-minded scholars teach on campuses across the nation.