Alumni Outcomes

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.


Resources for Alumni

 


Recent Undergraduate Alumni Employers

 

 

  • ABC News
  • Atomic Heritage Foundation
  • Center for American Progress
  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Disney ABC Television Group
  • DC Public Schools
  • Fox Associates

 

  • Grassroots Campaigns
  • IBM
  • Japan Exchange and Teaching Program
  • National History Center
  • Smithsonian National Postal Museum
  • U.S. House of Representatives
  • The Washington Post

More Undergraduate Alumni Outcomes


Edward Gillespie

"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


 

Recent Graduate Alumni Employers

 

 

  • 1% for the Planet
  • California State University, Long Beach
  • Constitutional Sources Project
  • City College of New York
  • East Tennessee State University
  • Jefferson Management Consultants
  • Lyngo
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • National Archives
  • National Security Archive
  • Northrop Grumman

 

 

  • Oklahoma State University
  • Peking University High School
  • Steptoe and Johnson
  • Tarleton State University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of Sioux Falls
  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Virginia Military Institute

More Graduate Alumni Outcomes


 

Alumni Books
 

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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 whole.

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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.

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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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