Western Illinois University offers graduate assistantships.
Special Library Strengths: - Government document depository - Over 1,000,000 volumes - Large collection of US military history secondary literature; selection of pre-modern military literature - ILLNET system allows fast interlibrary loan within and outside the State of Illinois
MA has both a thesis and non-thesis option. Several graduates have entered doctoral programs in military history.
Dr. Virginia Boynton, Chair Department of History 438 Morgan Hall 1 University Circle Macomb, IL 61455 Phone: 309-298-1053 Fax: 309-298-2540 History1@wiu.edu
Military History Faculty
Walter E. Kretchik (PhD, University of Kansas, 2001) - US military - Global and transnational warfare - Military interventions 1898-present - UN and US peace operations
Lee Brice (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2003) - Ancient Rome and Greece - Military unrest - Ancient warfare