292nd Annual Dinner Featuring Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust

292nd Annual Dinner Featuring Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust

Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 5:30 pm

Presented In Person and Virtually

The Down Town Club, 600 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA

For almost 300 years, the Library Company has gathered annually to celebrate our steadfast commitment to learning. This year, we are pleased to be featuring Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust. She will be discussing her latest book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up in Midcentury.

Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, is an accomplished author and scholar. In addition to Dr. Faust’s illustrious history at Harvard (President, 2007-2018; founding dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2001-2007) and in the history department at University of Pennsylvania, she is the distinguished author of six books, including most recently This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008), which chronicles the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans. It was awarded the 2009 Bancroft Prize, the New-York Historical Society’s 2009 American History Book Prize, and was recognized by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2008.”

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