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...begin primary season and start thinking about the 2008 presidential election, is the time to remember that we must take advantage of the political and civil liberties that we do enjoy. We further must decide how we want our generation to be remembered: as passive and nonparticipatory, or as passionate and engaged? Whether we individually choose to vote for Obama, Huckabee, Clinton, Romney, or “Other,” in order to prove young adults a powerful national force, we must vote. Admittedly, for Harvard students this may be less of an issue than for others (there...
...This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” Faust’s fifth book, was released yesterday by Knopf to largely positive reviews. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Civil War scholar raised in Virginia, Faust has written extensively on the experience of white slave-holding women and Confederate nationalism...
...She’s established herself as probably the foremost historian of the antebellum South in terms of cultural and gender history,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian James M. McPherson...
...book—an analysis of the cultural impact of the Civil War’s 600,000 casualties—is the latest work in a remarkably broad scholarly career that has stirred praise and some controversy in academia...