Research Opportunities

Members of the GW community enjoy extraordinary resources for studying history on and off campus in the Washington, DC area. The following list offers a few examples.

National Libraries and Collections

• The Library of Congress: the largest and most diverse history collection of any library in the world.
• The Folger Shakespeare Library: the largest collection of Shakespeare materials in the world, plus major collections pertaining to the Renaissance and early modern Europe.
• The National Archives: the official archive of the United States federal government.
• The National Museum of the American Indian

Special Collections on Campus

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: research and outreach center devoted to Eleanor Roosevelt's writings on democracy and human rights.
• The First Federal Congress Project: research center and publisher of a multi-volume collection of documents relating to the creation of the U.S. federal government.
• The National Security Archive (Gelman Library): the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents, most of which pertain to the political and diplomatic history of the United States since World War II.
• Special Collections Research Center (Gelman Library): home to unique collections in African-American Studies, Jewish History, and American Labor History.

Area Studies Centers at GW

• Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Institute for Middle East Studies
• Sigur Center for Asian Studies