Symposium Speakers

Drew Gilpin Faust 

Dr. Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. Her most recent book is This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.



Gary W. Gallagher

Dr. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. His books include Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War, The Confederate War, and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. He received the Fletcher Pratt Award for the best nonfiction book on the Civil War, the Laney Prize for the best book in Civil War history, and shared the Lincoln Prize. He was a founder and first president of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites.

Edward L. Ayers

In July 2007, Dr. Ayers assumed the presidency of the University of Richmond. Named National Professor of the Year in 2003, Ayers has written and edited ten books. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history. Ayers also created The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, a Web site that has attracted millions of visitors.