Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.
This Republic of Suffering
Chronicles the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans.
New edition with new introduction forthcoming September 12, 2023.
Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor
Photo: Harvard’s commencement on May 24, 2018
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