Drew Gilpin Faust | Understanding Our New World

On December 5, 2023, Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her memoir, "Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Midcentury," with Institute director John Shaw.
In their conversation, Faust describes growing up in segregated Virginia in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming a civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activist, and developing into one of the most respected historians in the United States.
Faust is the former president of Harvard University and a leading scholar of the American Civil War.