Drew Gilpin Faust
Autor von This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Faust, Catherine Drew Gilpin
- Geburtstag
- 1947-09-18
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- Clarke County, Virginia, USA (childhood)
- Ausbildung
- University of Pennsylvania (AM - American Civilization, PhD - American Civilization)
Bryn Mawr College (BA) - Berufe
- historian
professor
college administrator - Beziehungen
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (husband)
- Organisationen
- University of Pennsylvania (professor of history ∙ 1975-2001)
Harvard University (professor of history ∙ 2001- )
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (dean ∙ 2001-2007)
Harvard University (president ∙ 2007- )
Southern Historical Association (president | 2000) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Society of American Historians (1993)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
American Philosophical Society (2004)
Jefferson Lecture (2011)
John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity (2018)
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Granted the author had the privileges of race, social class, and economic security. But the narrative of her activism demonstrates that she leveraged those advantages to take a stand for her beliefs as a teen and young adult.
I'm slightly younger than the author and remember most of the events in the late 50's and 60's. Reading this book reminded me of the discomfort I felt as a child & youth regarding those news stories. That discomfort remains with me today, because the issues are still unresolved. There is some irony that by participating in history, this young woman then made a life out of history. Relevant quote: "Coming to terms with the past would ultimately become an intellectual and professional commitment as well as a personal necessity. I grew up to be a historian." p. 257.… (mehr)