Phi Beta Kappa Oration, Harvard University, May 21, 2024 , Drew Gilpin Faust I am honored to be here today celebrating your achievements and grateful for this opportunity to speak after 11 years of...

Growing up in the South, Faust rejected the narrative she was fed about slavery and the Civil War. She writes about her journey to activism and becoming the president of Harvard in Necessary Trouble.

Judy Woodruff signed off as NewsHour anchor Friday night with a special message to viewers. While her time as anchor has ended, she will devote 2023 and 2024 to a new national reporting project,...

Today, I write to you as a Black man and as President of Emerson College. There is no other way to write to you, given recent events. I didn’t sleep … Continue Reading Message from President Pelton:...

The biomedical research center has processed samples from more than a hundred colleges and has become a key contributor to coronavirus testing.

Accomplished scholar, National Book Award winner will blend teaching in African American studies, women and gender studies.

Drew Gilpin Faust's memoir, "Necessary Trouble," documents how a privileged Virginia girl became a civil rights activist, historian and Harvard president.

The report of the president’s 1776 Commission advocating ‘patriotic history’ has no citations or source list. But its claims derive from arguments that have long circulated on the right.

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

It is often said among appellate litigators that oral arguments rarely affect the outcome of a case. The written arguments—the briefs—are the coin of the

Opposite the title page in Drew Gilpin Faust’s Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury is an image of a letter the future historian and president of Harv…

American conservatives are taking cues from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists.

Drew Gilpin Faust, former Harvard University president, discusses her memoir “Necessary Trouble,” about her rebellion against sexist and racist strictures of 1950s Virginia.

The governor's crusade against 'woke indoctrination' continues to reach new levels of distortion and censorship.

Reckoning with 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most recently the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled historians to rethink the Civil War and its aftermath

The AHA has released a statement on Florida House Bill 999, “express[ing] horror . . . at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of...

As a child, I saw the country in its photos, stories, and advertisements—and learned some hard truths about America.

An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.

"In an era when the consummate purpose of child-rearing was to produce young people who were “well-adjusted,” I did not want to adjust to the world for which I was being prepared."

Former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss her new book, “Necessary Trouble,” a memoir of growing up in the segregated South and supporting the civil...

The judge showed little leniency in sentencing the WNBA star, who was arrested at the Moscow airport in February.

Being a Dreamer is.

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Jha arrives at a natural inflection point, as the omicron wave subsides and the administration seeks to restore a sense of normalcy.

The teaching of history is under siege. 

“Dear Mr. Eisenhower, I am nine years old and I am white.” These were the opening words of a letter protesting racism in American public education that Catharine Drew Gilpin […]

Texas SB 18 would eliminate tenure for new hires at public institutions in the state beginning in 2024.

As cofounder of the new US Digital Corps, Chris Kuang's task is to create a pipeline for young tech talent to work on the government’s most vexing technical issues.

Former Harvard president Faust (This Republic of Suffering) nimbly blends the personal and the political in this affecting memoi...

His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.

The decision puts a halt, at least for now, to what was potentially the nation’s largest re-enfranchisement of voters in more than 50 years.

The prophetic tradition is about loving America — and holding it to account.

My mother will not count as one of war’s casualties. But what do you call someone who loses her country, her parents, her peace of mind, because of war?

In an interview, Drew Gilpin Faust discusses what the affirmative action ruling will mean for colleges going forward.

Biographies of Anna May Wong and Alice Marble, a deep-sea exploration, a history of the race to the North Pole: Here’s what to watch for this season.

Growing up, the future historian and Harvard president was taught to simply accept, without protest, the Southern status quo. But she wouldn’t remain silent in the face of injustice.

Tiananmen is caught in a larger “struggle of memory against forgetting.”

President Claudine Gay's Inauguration Address