The 2011–2012 Lowell Lecture Series: Drew Gilpin Faust

The 2011–2012 Lowell Lecture Series: Remembering the Civil War
The 2011-2012 Lowell Lecture Series commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with an outstanding line-up of acclaimed writers and scholars to reflect upon this pivotal period in American history and its enduring legacy. Lectures are held at 6:00 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall at the Central Library in Copley Square.

A book sale and author signing will follow each lecture.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.

Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A historian of the Civil War and the American South, Faust was the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Previously, she served as the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the faculty for 25 years. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996), for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Her most recent book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008), looks at the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans. It won the Bancroft Prize in 2009 and was a finalist for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.The theme of the 2011-2012 Lowell Lecture series is “Remembering the Civil War.” This is part of the Boston Public Library’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.