Drew Gilpin Faust

The Current Republic of Suffering

by Murray Browne

Drew Gilpin Faust's "This Republic of Suffering" inspires reflection on how the collective experiences of COVID and the loss of a half million Americans may shape the society that emerges. 

Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust to step down as president next year

The first woman to serve as Harvard’s president, she announced Wednesday that she would step down next year after 11 years of service.

Harvard’s Drew Gilpin Faust takes to the op ed page of the NYT to defend the NEH from Trump’s knife

"The work of the endowment nurtures our national soul. We must ensure that it continues.”

Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery

Harvard hosts a conference examining a long-neglected topic that has suddenly become urgent.

Harvard President Drew Faust says the university is documenting its ties to slavery

It’s hosting a day-long symposium to investigate slavery and universities.

Harvard president hits back at Trump's immigration ban: 'Nearly half of the deans of Harvard's schools are immigrants'

"Benefiting from the talents and energy, the knowledge and ideas of people from nations around the globe is not just a vital interest of the University; it long has been, and it fully remains, a vital interest of our nation."

Drew Faust on John Hope Franklin and 'Historians to the Rescue'

Historian Drew Gilpin Faust opened the Centennial Symposium honoring John Hope Franklin by praising the legacy he left for activists and scholars and for research “that rescued us from bad history.”

Harvard’s Drew Faust says colleges have a “special” role to play in combatting climate change

They are pushing hard toward breakthrough remedies, Faust says in speech at Beijing

Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard president’s 2012 earnings surpassed $1 million

Faust, 66, joins a growing group of private college presidents to surpass the $1 million mark as university leaders are increasingly paid like executives running large companies.

How David Brion Davis came to study slavery

by Drew Gilpin Faust

David Brion Davis, age eighty-six, has published the final volume in the trilogy he inaugurated with The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (PSWC) and continued with The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (PSAR) in 1975.

Where David Brion Davis fits in the historiography of slavery

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation’s history.