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...
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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...
Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up in Virginia
In a piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic, Faust, the recently retired president of Harvard and an American historian, reflects on what it was like to growing-up in the racist South. Her piece is a wonderful example of...
Drew Gilpin Faust
She is the outgoing president of Harvard and one of the best Civil War historians working today. Here is Colleen Walsh’s Harvard Gazette interview with Drew Gilpin Faust: Q: You wrote a letter to President Eisenhower when you were 9 urging him to...
Drew Gilpin Faust on Free Speech: We live in a “highly polarized political and social environment, perhaps the most divisive since the era of the Civil War”
Here is the Harvard president’s commencement address: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZrIGqFAw4&w=560&h=315]...
Slavery at Harvard
I just came across this article Lydialyle Gibson’s essay in Harvard Magazine titled “A Vast Slave Society.” It is a report on a one-day conference at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute on slavery at America’s first institution of higher education and other...
Drew Gilpin Faust Defends the National Endowment for the Humanities
Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War historian and president of Harvard University, has taken to the op-ed page of The New York Times today to defend the National Endowment for the Humanities. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sept. 17, 1862, was the...
Drew Gilpin Faust on John Hope Franklin
Drew Gilpin Faust, the President of Harvard University and historian of the American South, recently spoke at Duke University as part of a series of lectures honoring the late American historian John Hope Franklin. Franklin is a scholar that younger historians […]
Drew Gilpin Faust Responds to the Obama College Scorecard
Drew Gilpin Faust By this point you have already heard about Barack Obama’s College Scorecard. In a nutshell, Obama wants to evaluate colleges based on how well they train students for the job market. When combined with his decision to...