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 ...

Former University President Drew Gilpin Faust offered an impassioned defense of higher education and denounced politicians for “denigrating and destroying” the academy during her keynote ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story ...

No sooner did Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Gilpin Faust, come on the phone than I popped the Harvard question — why her new memoir skirts the apex of her academic trajectory, her presidency at ...

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?

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court Monday in Trump v. Anderson, the forthcoming case on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s ...

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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." ...

By Drew Gilpin Faust AFRICAN FOUNDERS How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals By David Hackett Fischer During more than half a century as a professor and a scholar, David Hackett Fischer has ...

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 of seven books ...