Join Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust as she speaks on her newest book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Faust’s book is an illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. It explores the impact of this enormous toll from every angle—material, political, intellectual and spiritual—and shows how the war victimized civilians through violence that extended beyond battlefields. A book signing will follow the program.
The speaker was introduced by Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States.
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