[3] After graduating summa cum laude from Kenyon College, Schaub began her career as an assistant managing editor for the conservative magazine, The National Interest in 1985.
In 2003–2005, while serving as a professor at Loyola College, Schaub taught at a series of lectures and seminars designed for high school teachers, held at Ashland University.
Schaub has co-edited or written three books: What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song,[6] Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s "Persian Letters", and His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation.
Schaub has also been published in many academic journals and newspapers including National Affairs,[7] The Baltimore Sun,[8] and The Public Interest.
Schaub was awarded the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters in 2001, and received a research grant from the Earhart Foundation in 1995.