Brooke Speer Orr, PhD ’02, traces the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease in this comprehensive biography. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as...
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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.
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
"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
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Alumni Books
The Limits of Détente: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973
In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle, PhD ’08, draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only...
Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders
Philip Muehlenbeck, PhD ’07, closely examines former President John F. Kennedy’s policies toward Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Egypt, Algeria, Tanganyika and South Africa. Kennedy’s...
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