In 1960, Martin Luther King, Jr., faced a harrowing nine days in a dangerous prison. In his book, Paul Kendrick, BA ’05, MPA ’07, tells how King’s ordeal changed politics as we know it.
Vanessa Northington Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of American Studies, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a member of the National Council on the Humanities ...
American Studies’ Melani McAlister and a team of students are collecting interviews with the GW community to create a historical archive of pandemic experiences.
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