In this Washington Post Live conversation from Sept. 20, Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian and the first female president of Harvard University, discusses her new book, “Necessary Trouble: Growing Up ...

Drew Gilpin Faust is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor and president emerita at Harvard. She is the author, most recently, of ...

Historian Drew Gilpin Faust has won this year’s $1 million John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, an award administered by the Library of Congress that recognizes work in ...

Growing up in the South, Faust rejected the narrative she was fed about slavery and the Civil War. She writes about her journey to activism and... Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust says history should make ...

In her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes that Civil War deaths — both their... Drew Faust On The 'Shared Suffering' Of The Civil War ...

Prologue -- A death in the family -- A girl isn't the same -- Shooting the dog -- Many feelings about segregation -- Life in the fifties -- Girls who dare: Nancy, Anne, and Scout -- Friday for ...

Drew Faust, the historian who has been named Harvard’s first female president, has been praised for her “people skills,” but she’s also done brilliant intellectual work on a crucial question for our ...

Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come. By Kate Zernike Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “Necessary Trouble ...

Drew Gilpin Faust is known as a historian, a civil rights activist and the first woman president of Harvard — but she was groomed to become a proper Southern lady. Growing up in Virginia's Shenandoah ...

Drew Gilpin Faust took office as Harvard’s 28th president on July 1, 2007. Faust, a historian of the Civil War and the American South, is also the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard’s Faculty of ...