Historian and former Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust (check out our podcast interview with her here) has a piece on commencement speeches at The Atlantic. I love the subtitle: “Where everything and nothing is at stake.” Here is a taste: […]
Drew Gilpin Faust
“Trump should be thrown off the ballot.” Historians convince E.J. Dionne
When the Colorado–14th Amendment ballot case broke, Washington Post columnist and public intellectual E.J. Dionne was skeptical. He was among those who thought that Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado and let the people decide whether he should […]
Episode 123: “Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury”
She was a privileged baby boomer who grew up on a horse farm in segregated Virginia. By her twenty-first birthday she had worked for peace in Communist Europe, traveled the country in the cause of racial justice, marched for voting rights […]
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust: “Education asks you to change”
I am trying to get former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust on The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast, but I think her publicist is ghosting me! 🙂 I am hoping that Faust might be willing to consider smaller […]
Gen Z can’t read cursive
Historian and former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust wonders how they will interpret the past. Here is a taste of her piece at The Atlantic: Given a current generation of students in which so few can read or write cursive, one […]