C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

From its inception in 2000 until 2006, the C.V. Starr Center was headed by Ted Widmer, a presidential historian and former speechwriter for the Clinton Administration's National Security Council, who is now Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. In July 2006, Adam Goodheart was appointed the Starr Center’s second Director. The Starr Center has been established and sustained with the generous support of the Starr Foundation, the Hodson Trust, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, with project grants from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, and with the contributions of many individual donors and friends.