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Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, among other books.  (October 2018)

Pauli Murray at the Church of the Holy Nativity, Baltimore, 1981

Catching Up to Pauli Murray

Her words and actions on behalf of African-Americans and women propelled two of the most significant social movements of the twentieth century

Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

by Pauli Murray, with an introduction by Patricia Bell-Scott

October 25, 2018 issue

Race & the Meaning of America

On John Hope Franklin, and history as the instrument of change

December 17, 2015 issue

‘Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia’; painting by Eyre Crowe, 1861

The Scholar Who Shaped History

David Brion Davis’s ‘The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation’

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

by David Brion Davis

March 20, 2014 issue

Letter

Gloria Deák

Thackeray & American Slavery

May 8, 2014 issue

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