South, 1840-1860, Drew Gilpin Faust investigates the extraordinary association of five antebellum Southern intellectuals who cooperated "to establish a role for men of mind in their region. War stories matter. narratives of liberal learning, disinterested scholarship and social citizenship. University leaders, he observes, have embraced a market model of university purpose to justify themselves to the society that supports them with philanthropy and tax dollars. The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. Her most recent is This Republic of Suffering, which takes its title from the words of Frederick Law Olmsted and its subject from the vast death toll of the Civil War. The cemetery, where Fausts grandfather was laid to rest, bore numerous headstones that said only, Unidentified Confederate., The other history was Fausts own era, the second half of the twentieth century, as it was beginning to unfold around her. This is why it can provide the satisfaction of meaning to its participants; this too is why it offers such a natural attraction to writers and historians. The first masterwork of Western literature, dating to approximately 750 BCE, was the Iliad, a tale that exerts a wrenching power more than two millennia after its origin. We simply know a great deal more about the experience of black Americans in a variety of critical roles in the war as soldiers nearly 200,000 strong fighting for Union victory, as contrabands forcing the issue of freedom onto the northern agenda, as slave laborers refusing to continue the status quo on farms and plantations across the South. . Tales of glory, honor, manhood and sacrifice enhance wars attraction and mobilize men and armies. [Ms. Faust, the new president of Harvard, is a Civil War historian by training.] She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. It's why I cheered Drew Gilpin Faust's appointment as Harvard's 28th presidentthe first woman to hold the job in the university's 371-year history. This shifting yet undiminished interest in the war has yielded five subsequent decades of pathbreaking scholarship and writing. [12] Faust was the first woman to serve as president of Harvard University.[13]. . History is iterative and interactive which, happily, is why there will always remain new inexhaustible work for historians. The author Drew Gilpin Faust wanted to show the world a side of the war that Americans have never seen in details. Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust is the President of Harvard University, the first woman to hold the position and the university's 28th president overall. In 2009, however, she instituted layoffs and pay freezes after Harvards endowment suffered a major loss during the global financial crisis. We must acknowledge both its horror and its attraction if we hope to understand the contradictions in its impact and presence in human lives. This was the norm when we were growing up. In 1957, nine-year-old Faust, of her own initiative, wrote to President Eisenhower to let him know her feelings on the matter: Please Mr. Eisenhower, please try and have schools and other things accept colored people.. Faust joined Dean Michelle Williams in the Voices in Leadership studio to candidly discuss the challenges and opportunities they have seen in higher education, national activism, and global health. As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to war. So, too, have declining levels of government support. How is it that the human has become so entangled with the inhumane? [25], Faust championed organic lawn management of the campus grounds and Harvard Yard during her tenure, including adopting the practices at Elmwood, the presidents house on Brattle Street. But neither our minds nor those of the thousands of observers and reenactors around us were focused on such matters. How did they deal with the bodies? How, to quote a prominent Confederate, does God have the heart to allow it? And what does it mean for the nation-state that has required so much sacrifice? [28], Faust retired as president of Harvard College in June 2018, succeeded by Lawrence Bacow. In her 2008 book, This Republic of Suffering, Faust yet again provoked the history profession with a close examination of a major and yet strangely overlooked aspect of the much-studied and written-about Civil War: a death toll so large it altered human perception and foreshadowed the vast carnage of twentieth-century warfare. Drew Faust. . I juxtapose Widener Library and Memorial Church today because we need the qualities that both represent, because I believe that reason and knowledge must be inflected with values, and that those of us who are privileged to be part of this community of learning bear consequent responsibilities. Most other creatures engage in violence, and some insects and animals with elaborate social structures reflect those systems in their modes of fighting and aggression. War makes rattling good history, a Thomas Hardy character observes in The Dynasts. On a hot Saturday in September 1962, I crowded with my brothers and cousins into my aunt and uncles station wagon and drove off to war. He lived in Clarke County, as we did, and he was very much a presence. But from the time he was much smaller he had us playing Civil War. When Martin Luther King delivered his I Have a Dream speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial almost a year later in August 1963, he self-consciously placed himself within the Civil War centennial not the historyless version of the reenactors, but one that urged Americans to finish the revolution the war had begun. Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust noted in 2009 the growing dominance of economic justifications for the existence of universities, to the exclusion of its other missions, such. Feb. 10, 2007 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 Harvard, the nation's oldest university, plans to name Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian of the Civil War South, to be the first female president in its. By Drew Gilpin Faust Illustration by Katie Martin. . Also, if you look at the Civil War, it was a time when the American government was able to establish a number of forward-looking policies that strengthened the nation. overrideTextColor= Americans, North and South, black and white, Faust demonstrated, could not achieve the good death of their fallen loved ones, since huge numbers of slain soldiers were never identified by name or even the location of their graves. Harvard and the world. Faust also has a stepdaughter, Leah Rosenberg. . Because we still believe that as a nation we have been defined by the ideals and the sacrifice of that war, we feel compelled even a hundred fifty years later to situate ourselves in relationship to it. War is terrible and yet we love it, wrote Drew Gilpin Faust in 2004. The United States has pioneered a new postwar era of mass college attendance that has become global in reach. Yet still we try. Want to read all 3 pages? And were proud of the role it and you have played in helping insure that America leads the world in almost every academic discipline. Faust showed the death of the soldiers, and the effect that the war . The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, had been of even greater significance in the war than either first or second Bull Run. She earned M.A. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university. Fighting is reconceived as war because of how humans write and speak about it; it is framed as a story, with a plot that imbues its actors with both individual and shared purpose and is intended to move toward victory for one or another side. In July of 1862 he signed the Morrill Act, which established land-grant colleges, with the implication that even in wartime we needed to expand educational opportunity for American citizens. Drew Gilpin Faust President (2007-2018), Harvard University 1968, BA, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania; 1971, MA, and 1975, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. As Robert Sutton, the National Park Services chief historian, has insisted that the nations historic sites emphasize that slavery is the principal cause of the war, he has encountered widespread resistance and controversy. The white minority felt the need to exert control over the enslaved population. Universities do not just store facts; they teach us how to evaluate, test, challenge, and refine them. Four days after retiring from her position as president, she joined the board of Goldman Sachs. And we must do still more. In 1975, Faust joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. We must support and sustain fact and reason beyond our walls as well. Nevertheless, my assignment is to offer a few reflections on this magnificent institution at this moment in its history. She promoted access to higher education by increasing financial aid offers to students at Harvard College. Derek Bok, who had served as president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, returned to serve as an interim president during the 20062007 academic year. [7], Faust graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. First was the history of the Civil War. Why choose war? In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against racial segregation of the schools. The arguments over the interpretations of this history were captivating as well. It is not just Civil War soldiers, of course, for whom telling the story, depicting the scene, was a challenging imperative. But the input of her brother, Donald Gilpin, a retired teacher of English and drama, sparked both memories and insights. And so with the articulation of these principles of separation and inequality as a defensive response to the emerging civil rights revolution, I was struck, even as a young child, by their inconsistency with the values I had learned at church, as I made reference to in my piece about my letter to Eisenhower, and in school as we learned about democracy and America, those political values that had been transmitted to me by the time I was nine years old. . FAUST: I felt very much that I lived in historyin a couple of different ways. This too has shaped a new approach to our past. It is well war is so terrible else we would grow too fond of it. After all, we owe to war so much of our history and our literature. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible and the infinite, the animal, the spiritual and the divine. Confederates became valiant opponents rather than traitors, their cause not slavery but states rights, their loss not a failure but an exhaustion of resources that left them the proud, if defeated, underdogs. For Americans, it was and is a special war with special meanings. Faust has not merely contributed to historical knowledge or told old stories well. I also believe that it is important for the military to be a part of American life and not isolated from the mainstream. It challenges us as it has long challenged the humanities to take it on. President Faust represents that essential truth as a model, but the trajectory by which she became Professor Faust tells us even more about her as a person and a scholar. '02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on engagement with Historically Black . overrideButtonText=, PROVO, UT 84602, USA | 801-422-4636 | 2023 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Forum: A higher purpose for religious education, Forum: Fighting climate change is loving Gods creations. LEACH: Your most recent book is This Republic of Suffering, which could perhaps be described as a compendium of how families of the nation deal with loss. And as I read the seemingly endless numbers of them I was increasingly struck by how often women spoke about death and how central was their perception of death and the fear of death and the need to manage death. The school adopted a motto that has a double meaning: "Learn to change the world." Diaries, letters, and business records furnished a superb record of Hammonds rise from near poverty to social success as a politician and the master of a large plantation. As president of Harvard, Faust has expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. Up until the end of the 1800s, most American college presidents taught a course on moral philosophy to graduating students. Cold Mountain is a recent literary rendering of such a story. Harvard College is a residential community of learning with a goal, in the words of its dean, of personal and social as well as intellectual transformation. The Transcontinental Railroad is another example. We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Who was Hammond and what was his role in the South in the years leading up to and during the Civil War? Having a completely different subject occupy each consecutive hour of my day on many occasions is a wonder and a thrill. Related Speeches. Within her first six months in office, Faust filled several open deanships and appointed other top administration officials. - Raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Drew Gilpin Faust attended Concord Academy in Massachusetts. [8] Faust also has New England ancestry and is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton. FAUST: I made an argument that womens exasperation and exhaustion in the Confederate South led them to focus increasingly on their own interests in preserving what remained of their property and their loved ones. Stories of war are infused with the aura of the consequential. There wasnt a vivid discourse of race. She also suggested a bold interpretation of why the Confederacy lost the war. Wars are indeed turning points both in individual lives and in national histories. And it seemed to me that one way of responding, a way that added a perspective from the new kind of history that was being done of actors who hadnt been included before, was to suggest that indeed their agency included having an impact on this most fundamental of Civil War questions. Unlike perhaps any other institutions in the world, they embrace the long view and nurture the kind of critical perspectives that look far beyond the present. Education has been central to the American Dream since the time of the nations founding. In reaction, Fausts neighbor, U.S. Why must he write of the war? he asks. in history magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. Yet this commitment to reason and truthto their pursuit and preeminenceseems increasingly a minority viewpoint. An increasing interest in the lives of ordinary Americans during the years of conflict has included a great deal of research and writing about what happened beyond the battlefield, on the homefront, in communities and families North and South. I am in the unenviable role of warm-up act for one of the greatest storytellers of ouror any othertime. The federal governments first effort to support higher education, the Morrill Act of 1862, which established land grant colleges, was intended to advance the practical education of the industrial classes. A Department of Education report from 2006, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education, concentrated on creating a competitive American work force and advancing our collective prosperity. But even as we as a nation have embraced education as critical to economic growth and opportunity, we should remember that colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility. She succeeded Lawrence H. Summers, who resigned in the wake of controversy over remarks that attributed womens lack of visibility in the sciences to intrinsic sex differences. Like any good story, it offers the promise and gratification that accompany a resolution of the plot. by Drew Gilpin Faust nn the first battle of the Civil War, the only casualty was a horse. And it seems to me very important that the education that Harvard has to offer be something that individuals in the military are able to experience and are encouraged to experience. And what a moment it is. But, as much historical research has shown, the specter behind that argument was really that of slavery and of the South Carolinian demographic reality of a black majority. doubting . Harvard College is a residential community of learning with a goal, in the words of its dean, of personal and social as well as intellectual transformation. In a recent column, George Will deplored the nations evident abandonment of what he called the reality principlethe need to assess and adapt to facts. Universities are defined by this principle. The language of war made Americans protagonists in a story they understood rather than the victims or potential victims of forces beyond their comprehension or control. What must we do? Before serving as president, she was the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and for many years was a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Neither the abiding questions of humanistic inquiry nor the winding path of scientific research that leads ultimately to innovation and discovery can be neatly fitted within a predictable budget and timetable. I have come to believe that it is out of this struggle that certain recurrent images or descriptions appear like verbal snapshots, designed in essence to short-circuit the complexity of language with an almost visual substitute words as pictures rather than as interpretation or understanding. Well, after 11 years, Drew Gilpin Faust has now completed the job. Upload your study docs or become a Course Hero member to access this document Continue to access Term Fall Professor MaryHughes Tags Moreover, in Hammond, Faust found a figure through which all the contradictions of the Old South flowed; he was a brilliant and handsome sexual predator who abused his slave women at the same time he argued for a blending of modernization and tradition in a society heading toward destruction. One of the most striking aspects of the Civil War in my mind is why the North fought. Human beings are in fact powerfully attracted to war. More than twenty-six centuries later, contemplating Americas Civil War, Herman Melville concurred, None can narrate that strife. Yet both chose nonetheless to write, to find words to convey wars meaning, seeing in its impossibility the attraction of its necessity. . But we should ask ourselves how in the construction of war stories we may be helping to construct war itself. With such probing insights, Faust has made a permanent impact on the writing of American history. In the months preceding the layoffs, various campus groups called upon Faust and other administrators to reduce their salaries as a means of cutting costs campus-wide. On Friday, she came to Girls High to tell students they can do anything. Faust pointed to recent research from BYU including those about the effects of social media on suicide risk for teenage girls, the implications of ice sheet dynamics for historical ecosystems and the analysis of datasets from 1918 to help understand pandemics as examples of education leading to action. After attending Bryn Mawr College -- a seven sister school and one of the few remaining women's colleges in the country -- she earned a Ph.D. in American Civilization and became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. If C. Vann Woodward were alive to witness the wars sesquicentennial begin this spring, he would find that the conflict over its interpretation continues, once again mirroring our contemporary debates about national purposes. It was fought on our own soil, in places with familiar names and by people who seem not so unlike us. Drew Gilpin Faust graduated from Bryn Mawr College, got her graduate degrees at Penn and served on Penn's faculty for 25 years and for the last 11 years, she's led Harvard. FAUST: Youre very kind and very generous. History. She has changed the questions and pushed the story in new directions. We as writers create that story; we remember that story. . accounting . But what began to become even more interesting as I moved into my graduate historical studies was one aspect of Southern history, which was the revolution in the study of slavery. But arrive they did. A civil rights activistshe marched in Selma in 1965 in support of Martin Luther King Jr.and a progressive historian who labored to discern voices history has rendered silent, she has also been a close student of people and times many scholars would prefer to avoid. In a world divided by difference, we at Harvard strive to be united by it. FAUST: When I began studying history at Bryn Mawr, it was a very traditional history curriculum in which wide preparation in European history was required. So, I cared a lot about the overturn of Dont ask, dont tell, as another step in the nations progression towards inclusiveness. You cant tell where you are, or why youre there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. To rename violence as war is to give it a teleology. This was fascinating to me as a way of expanding how one does history. Dr. Faust took The 40th annual Miami Film Festival is rolling out the red carpet . She also added, "I'm not the woman president of Harvard, I'm the president of Harvard."[3]. Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) [1] is an American historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. In perhaps the best-known poem of that war, written towards its very end, Wilfred Owen warned children ardent for some desperate glory about what he called The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori How sweet and right it is to die for ones country. She retains her title as a professor of history at Harvard. This was a dramatic victory for the Confederates, gained as Union troops charged futilely up Maryes forbidding Heights in one of the wars most costly and pointless efforts. The Attorney General of the new Confederacy anticipated that war would stimulate . When Marine recruiters marched in perfect step into his high school auditorium, it was for Kovic, like all the movies and all the books and all the dreams of becoming a hero come true. He returned from Vietnam paralyzed from the waist down by a severed spinal cord, bitter about a war so different from the myth we had grown up believing, victim of a shattered body and even more shattered illusions. A steady stream of books among them Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (also a PBS special), edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow; Anthony T. Kronmans Educations End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life; and Dinesh DSouzas Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus have delineated what various authors have seen as the failings of higher education. As Woodward reflected, and as the centennial observances proceeded around him, the Civil War and its meaning aroused intensifying controversy. Her point of view is extremely interesting [17]: "Higher learning can offer individuals and societies a depth and breadth of vision. Faust stepped down as president in 2018. September 16, 2022 I t was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was. In my generation of historians, there was tremendous energy invested in studying workers and then women and also slaves and others who were part of the so-called inarticulate. To study those who dont leave traditional written records you have to look much more broadly at sources of information. And that led me, after I finished my PhD, with a yearlong grant from the Social Science Research Council, to study anthropology and to explore what anthropologists call worldview.. 1976-2000, Assistant Professor to Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Drew Faust has been a pioneer in at least three distinct subfields of nineteenth-century American history: first, the intellectual history of the Old South, especially proslavery ideology; second, the history of women and gender; and third, the social and cultural history of the Civil War, particularly that conflict's overwhelming scale of death The discussion and debate that surrounded that were very much in the air of my childhood. [20] Romer was later nominated by President Barack Obama to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. Those values seem to me ones that are important to underscore as well. On Education: A Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust and Donald Gilpin On March 21, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust and her brother, retired English and drama teacher Donald Gilpin, engaged in a conversation with Dean Jim Ryan about their successful careers as educators. We also see a repository of learning, with 57 miles of shelving at the heart of a library system of some 17 million books, a monument to reason and knowledge, to the collection and preservation of the widest possible range of beliefs, and experiences, and facts that fuel free inquiry and our constantly evolving understanding. Widener and Memorial Church. They will in these myriad details get history just right. LEACH: How did it influence you as you grew up? Corrections? Governor Rick Perry of Texas has hinted at secession as a possible response to growing anger at the federal government; a half-dozen states have threatened to nullify the recent federal health care law. And yet. Yet what we would regard as the extraordinary incongruity of their motivation and presence only underscores wars fascination. 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