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Articles with keyword "Civil War"

Young Union soldier with bayoneted musket, knife, and revolver.

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"Daybreak Gray and Dim"

How the Civil War changed Walt Whitman's poetry.

Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University

Conversation

Personal History

NEH Chairman Jim Leach talks with Drew Gilpin Faust, daughter of the South, president of Harvard, and this year's Jefferson Lecturer.

Image of the 7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C., 1861

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An Appreciation: A Historian's Historian

A look at the life and career of Drew Gilpin Faust.