Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War is a book by Drew Gilpin Faust.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust, an American historian and professor, is the first female president of Harvard University. A veteran Ivy League professor and administrator, Faust is known especially for her work on the history of the American South. She has won the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman...
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