President Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five previous books, including "Mothers of" "Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, " which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband...See more
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five previous books, including "Mothers of" "Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, " which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See less
President Drew Gilpin Faust book subjects
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History > United States > State & Local
- History
- Southern States
- To 1863
- United States
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President Drew Gilpin Faust's Featured Books
President Drew Gilpin Faust book reviews
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Wonderful book
This book is a quick read. The writing is clear, concise and wonderful. The stories of the families are intense and profound.
It is a wonderful read, very sad at times and well worth the time.
I ... Read More
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Getting here from there
With particular focus on the American "way of death" in the 19th Century, and especially the Civil War, Professor Faust examines in fascinating detail how much of what we do and feel about death ... Read More
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by BUTCH48, Jan 22, 2009
This was an extremely detailed, well-written book, depicting the extensive losses, the country's first experience with a tragedy of such magnitude, and the array of responses that shaped the ... Read More
