The following essay is adapted from remarks that Drew Gilpin Faust, former president of Harvard University, delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony at Harvard on May 21. What is a university?

Drew Gilpin Faust: Mary Lee of Winchester [Virginia] says at the end of the war, "Political reconstruction is inevitable now, but social reconstruction, we have in our hands and we can prevent." ...

How the young United States dealt with the unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead in the Civil War. The Ric Burns film is based on the book This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust.

The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust.

Last month, Harvard’s Board of Overseers confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president. A civil war historian who EDITOR’S NOTE The Annotations section is meant to convey a ...