The GW Department of History is proud of its undergraduate and graduate alumni who have used their education as a springboard to successful careers in law, the military, medicine, government, nongovernmental organizations, journalism, politics and teaching. They have published books, won fellowships and taught in universities from Colorado to China.
"Being out in the city as a cop can be such a culture shock. Literature, history and philosophy helped me through some difficult situations. ... The humanities are a window into understanding people."
Edward Gillespie
BA '92
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
Christopher Bright, PhD ’06 discusses the widespread acceptance of American weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and disseminated as a...
Klu Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
In Klu Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.
The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of the colony's child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
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