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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Drew Gilpin Faust

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No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry

Henry’s fiery oratory turned words into revolution, merging faith, emotion, and democracy to help speak a nation into being.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on October 8, 2025

The Men Who Started the War

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023

Black and white scale of justice.

The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on December 2, 2022

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Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive

How will they interpret the past?

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on September 16, 2022

William Faulkner writes at a typewriter in front of a messy bookshelf, not looking at the camera.

What to Do About William Faulkner

A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on August 8, 2020

Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on July 18, 2019

Catching Up to Pauli Murray

From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via New York Review of Books on October 5, 2018

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