Film
Death and the Civil War, based on This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Knopf, January 2008. Directed by Ric Burns for American Experience, September 18, 2013. Nominated for Emmy for best Documentary, 2013
Books
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Knopf, January 2008. Paperback edition, Vintage, 2009
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Paperback edition, Vintage, 1997
Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, University of Missouri Press, 1992
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, Louisiana State University Press, 1982
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery, Louisiana State University Press, 1982
A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. Paperback edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986
Edited Books
Macaria, by Augusta Jane Evans, edited with an introduction, Louisiana State University Press, 1992
The Ideology of Slavery: The Proslavery Argument in the Old South, 1830-1860, edited with an introduction, notes and bibliography
Articles and Essays (selected)
For presidential speeches see: https://www.harvard.edu/president/history/speeches/faust
“The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’” The Atlantic, December 2, 2022 (on-line)
“The Grimke Sisters and the Indelible Stain of Slavery” The Atlantic, (December 2022)
“Cursive is History” The Atlantic, October 2022
“White and Black: A Historian Traces African-American Influences in the United States,” Essay Review of David Hackett Fischer “American Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals” The New York Times, May 31, 2022 (on-line)
“Lively depiction of abolition dissects its competing philosophies and strategies” Washington Post Book Review, March 25, 2022
Essay Review Clint Smith “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” Harvard Magazine November-December 2021
“What to Do About William Faulkner” The Atlantic (September 2020) 80-82
Essay Review Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” American Historical Review 125 (June 2020) 960-64
“The Coronavirus Will Force Us to Change How We Mourn” The Washington Post, April 13, 2020
“Carry Me Back: Race, History and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood” The Atlantic, July 18, 2019
“Billy Yank and Johnny Reb” Wall Street Journal Book Review, December 8 – 9, 2018
“Catching Up to Pauli Murray” New York Review of Books, October 25, 2018
“The Earth Remembers: Landscape and History in the Work of Sally Mann,” in Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art 2018
“Killing a Program That Brings History to Life” The New York Times, March 7, 2017
“Claiming Full Citizenship” The Harvard Crimson, September 21, 2016
“Helping mayors do their job” Drew Faust and Michael Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, August 26, 2016
“Recognizing Slavery at Harvard” The Harvard Crimson, March 30, 2016
“John Hope Franklin: Race & the Meaning of America” The New York Review of Books, December 17, 2015
“The Best Partner for the Next President: Research Universities” Drew Faust and Janet Napolitano, TIME Magazine, July 10, 2015
“Two Wars and the Long Twentieth Century” The New Yorker, March 13, 2015 (Online only)
“‘Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln,’ by Richard Brookhiser” The New York Times Review of Books, February 6, 2015
“The Scholar Who Shaped History” The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2014
“The art of learning” Drew Faust and Wynton Marsalis, USA Today, January 2, 2014
“150 years after the Gettysburg Address, is government by the people in trouble?” The Washington Post, November 15, 2013
“The True Picture As It Really Was, Seeing the Civil War in Art and Experience” in Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney, Ray Arsenault and Vernon Burton (eds), New South Books (October 2013)
“The newest revolution in higher ed” Drew Faust and Rafael Reif, The Boston Globe, March 3, 2013
“Death and Transformation at Gettysburg” Drew Faust and Ric Burns in Gettysburg: Turning Point of the Civil War, ed. Kelly Knauer, Time Home Entertainment, (2013)
“War’s Laureate,” The New Republic, June 8, 2012
“Telling War Stories,” The New Republic, June 30, 2011
“Hope amid failure: Baseball as biography” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 8, 2011
“Deserving of the DREAM” Drew Faust and John Hennessy, POLITICO, December 8, 2010
“Harvard and Public Service,” The Harvard Crimson, October 19, 2009
“The University’s Crisis of Purpose” The New York Times, September 1, 2009
“`Numbers on Top of Numbers:’ Counting the Civil War Dead,” Journal of Military History 70 (October 2006) 995-1010
“The Dread Voice of Uncertainty: Naming the Dead in the American Civil War,” Southern Cultures (Summer 2005)
“‘We Should Grow Too Fond of It’: Why We Love the Civil War,” Civil War History (December 2004)
“Living History,” in Shapers of Southern History, ed. John Boles (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004)
“The Rights of the Dead, the Needs of the Living,” with Jennifer Leaning. Chronicle of Higher Education (May 16, 2003) B10
“Living History,” Harvard Magazine 105 (May-June 2003), 39-46, 82-3
“The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” Journal of Southern History, 57 (February 2001), 3–38
“Drew Gilpin Faust on Women of the Slaveholding South,” Booknotes: Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country, ed. Brian Lamb. (New York: Perseus Group, 2001), 86-92
“Equine Relics of the Civil War,” Southern Cultures 6 (Spring 2000), 23-49
“Moment of Truth: A Woman of the Master Class in the Confederate South,” in Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, ed. Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A. Ferleger (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000), 126–139
“C. Vann Woodward: Helping to Make History,” Chronicle of Higher Education, (January 14, 2000), B7
“`Clutching the Chains That Bind’: Margaret Mitchell and Gone With the Wind,” Southern Cultures, 5 (Spring 1999), 6–21
“`Without Pilot or Compass’: Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South,” in Religion and the American Civil War, ed. Randall Miller, Harry Stout and Charles R. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 1998, 250–261.
“Ours as Well as That of the Men: Women and Gender in the Civil War,” in Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, ed. James McPherson and William Cooper, University of South Carolina Press, 1998, 228–241
“Foreword,” Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, Louisiana State University Press, 1998
“What Do We Want History To Do?,” History Matters, 9 (January 1997).
“The Civil War’s Riddle of Death,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 43 (February 14, 1997), A56
“A Woman’s War: Southern Women in the Civil War,” with Thavolia Glymph and George Rable, in A Woman’s War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy, edited by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. and Kym S. Rice, University Press of Virginia, 1996, 1–27.
“A Riddle of Death: Mortality and Meaning in the American Civil War,” Fortenbaugh lecture, 1995. Gettysburg College pamphlet, 1995
“Introduction: Writing the War,” in Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868, Louisiana State University Press, 1995
“The Gendered Dimensions of Success,” Journal of Women’s History, 4 (Winter 1993), 157–160
“`Trying to Do a Man’s Business: Slavery, Violence and Gender in the American Civil War,” Gender and History, 4 (Summer 1992), 197–214
“Slavery in the American Experience,” in Before Freedom Came: African- American Life in the Antebellum South, ed. Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. with Kym Rice, University of Virginia Press, 1991, 1–19
“Epilogue,” in Joy and Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, ed. Carol Bleser, Oxford University Press, 1991, 253–9
“Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,” Journal of American History, 76 (March 1990), 1200–1228
“Race, Gender and Confederate Nationalism: William D. Washington’s Burial of Latane,” Southern Review, 25 (Spring 1989), 297–307
“Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army,” Journal of Southern History, 53 (February 1987), 63–90
“The Peculiar South Revisited: White Society, Culture and Politics in the Antebellum Period,” in Interpreting Southern History: Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham, edited by John Boles and Evelyn Nolen, Louisiana State University Press, 1987, 78–119
“Southern Violence Revisited,” Reviews in American History, 13 (June 1985), 205–211
“A Scenario for the Past: Colonial Virginia in History and Ethnography,” American Quarterly, 36 (Spring 1984), 135–138
“In Search of the Real Mary Chesnut,” Reviews in American History, 10 (March 1982), 54–59
“Culture, Conflict and Community: The Meaning of Power on an Antebellum Plantation,” Journal of Social History, 14 (September 1980), 83–97
“A Slaveowner in a Free Society: James Henry Hammond on the Grand Tour, 1836-1837,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 81 (1980), 189–206
“Mary Breckinridge,” Notable American Women: The Modern Period, Harvard University Press, 1980
“The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina,” Journal of Southern History, 45 (November 1979)
“A Southern Stewardship: The Intellectual and the Proslavery Argument,” American Quarterly, 31 (1979)
“Evangelicalism and the Meaning of the Proslavery Argument: The Reverend Thornton Stringfellow of Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 85 (January 1977,) 3–17