Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust, is best known as the first woman to be president of Harvard, a position she held from 2007 to 2018, and for her books about the Civil War. Her memoir is called "Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Midcentury."

Historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes that Civil War deaths — both their number and their manner — transformed America. Her new book is This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.