We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor.… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
“As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles'… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
“Where there are so many negroes upon places as upon ours," wrote an Alabama woman to the governor, "it is quite necessary that there… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share
