Barbara A. Perry is the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the Univer-sity of Virginia's Miller Center, where she co-di-rects the Presidential Oral History Program. She has au-thored or edited 12 books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights and civil liber-ties. Professor Perry has conducted more than 100 interviews for the George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush Oral History Projects; re-searched the Bill Clinton Oral History Project interviews, and directed the Edward Kennedy Oral History Pro-ject. She served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow and has worked for both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate.