Drew G. Faust

From Kevin Levin:

For a brief moment the face of Civil War scholarship is not an overweight reenactor or someone who can tell us where Grant sneezed on the battlefield or someone trying to hold tight to some strand of the Lost Cause...

Now that right there is pretty damn funny. But he said it because Drew Gilpin Faust has been named president of Harvard. Awesome. I've read most of what she has written and it all has been very influential in my thinking. Especially her work on James Henry Hammond, Confederate nationalism, and my favorite, the article "Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army" from 1987. 

Comments

[Jim]

Kevin Levin is a pseudo-historian crack-pot with an obvious political agenda and anti-southern bias. His goal is to defile the memory and contributions of the majority of southerners at the expense of racial divisiveness and misinformation. Anyone would do well to steer clear of his rantings unless the cause is to confront and challenge his tired rhetoric. I'll be glad to provide examples; otherwise, check out his blog and experience his bias yourself.

[chris]

Well.... start providin'.