Kent Germany joined the Department of History and the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina in 2006 after several years on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, where he led the LBJ project, co-founded the award-winning website www.whitehousetapes.org, and served as a host of For The Record, a nationally distributed PBS interview program on politics and history. At USC, his teaching and research have focused on a wide range of topics including the civil rights movement, presidential politics, recent U.S. history, African American history, and oral and documentary history.