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Drew Gilpin Faust

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#119

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#255

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#53

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Drew Gilpin Faust's Degrees

PhD American Civilization University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors History Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.

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Drew Gilpin Faust's Published Works

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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008) (195)
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (1990) (134)
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996) (129)
Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War (1990) (89)
The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South (1981) (79)
A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (1977) (45)
Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army (1987) (30)
The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying (2001) (29)
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1983) (26)
Why Masters are Slaves@@@James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery. (1983) (25)
Culture, Conflict, and Community: The Meaning of Power on an Ante-Bellum Plantation (1980) (25)
The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina (1979) (24)
A Southern Stewardship: The Intellectual and the Proslavery Argument (1979) (15)
Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (1992) (13)
"Numbers on Top of Numbers": Counting the Civil War Dead (2006) (12)
‘Trying to Do a Man's Business’: Slavery, Violence and Gender in the American Civil War (1992) (11)
Before freedom came : African-American life in the antebellum South : to accompany an exhibition organized by the Museum of the Confederacy (1991) (10)
Interchange: The Practice of History (2003) (10)
"We Should Grow Too Fond of It": Why We Love the Civil War (2004) (9)
Recent Directions in Gender and Women's History (2005) (9)
Macaria, or, Altars of sacrifice (1992) (6)
Clutching the Chains That Bind: Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind (2012) (5)
"The Dread Void of Uncertainty": Naming the Dead in the American Civil War (2005) (5)
Secession and Civil War (2008) (3)
Battle over the Bodies: Burying and Reburying the Civil War Dead, 1865–1871 (2009) (2)
Mingling Promiscuously: A History of Women and Men at Harvard (2004) (2)
In Search of the Real Mary Chestnut (1982) (2)
Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. By Daniel C. Littlefield (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. xii + 199 pp.) (1983) (2)
The Gendered Dimensions of "Success" (1993) (2)
"My Heart Is So Rebellious": The Caldwell Letters, 1861-1865. (1993) (2)
Southern Violence Revisited (1985) (2)
A Scenario for the Past: Colonial Virginia in History and Ethnography (1984) (1)
What they say about `Dixie' (1994) (1)
Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian (2011) (1)
Clutching the Chains That Bind (1999) (1)
A Faustfest@@@Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War. (1994) (0)
Base logics of explorationism (2013) (0)
Equine Relics of the Civil War (2000) (0)
What Shall We Do?: Confederate Women Confront the Crisis (2008) (0)
A different kind of slave (1994) (0)
Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832–1885. By Laurence Shore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 282. $25.00 (1987) (0)
The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. By Jan Lewis. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. xix + 290 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, note on sources, selected bibliography, and index. $24.95.) (1984) (0)
The inquisition in Mississippi (1993) (0)
The future of news: Journalism in a post-truth era (2017) (0)
Book Review: John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican, by Robert E. Shalhope (1981) (0)
Beulah. Library of Southern Civilization. (1994) (0)
Book Review: Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family, by Drew Gilpin Faust (1988) (0)
“Ours as well as that of the men” (2021) (0)
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. (2020) (0)
Drew Gilpin Faust (2019) (0)
Tucker, a Penn Dog (1986) (0)
Dressing the Part A review of Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (2009) (0)
Book Review:Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887: South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era Tamara Miner Haygood (1988) (0)

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