Consider historian Drew Gilpin Faust’s description of the aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg in 1863: “By July 4, an estimated six million pounds of human and animal carcasses lay strewn ...

At this talk, celebrated U.S. historian Drew Gilpin Faust will reflect on the changing presence of the South in American consciousness. Skip to content Select search type Places Events ...

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.