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Drew Gilpin Faust

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Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian of the Civil War and a scholar of the nineteenth-century American South. Her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War examined how mass death affected American culture, religion, language, and public memory. Faust served as president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold that position, while continuing to write and teach as a historian.

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What is Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering about?

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, published in 2008, examines how mass death changed American culture, religion, language, burial practices, and ideas about citizenship. It focuses on the human meaning of the Civil War’s unprecedented casualties.

Did This Republic of Suffering win the Pulitzer Prize?

It was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, not the winner. The 2009 history prize went to Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello.

When was Drew Gilpin Faust president of Harvard?

Faust served as president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She was the first woman to hold the presidency in Harvard’s history.

What kind of historian is Drew Gilpin Faust?

Faust is a historian of the American Civil War and the nineteenth-century United States. Her research often links military events with memory, death, slavery, emancipation, and the social consequences of war.

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