Harvard president to address University South Caroliniana Society May 9

Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, will be the keynote speaker at the University South Caroliniana Society’s 73rd annual meeting Saturday, May 9.

The annual gathering includes an exhibition of books, images and manuscripts acquired during the past year at the South Caroliniana Library.

A prominent American historian, Faust will discuss her most recent book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War,” at the luncheon. She has used the South Caroliniana Library’s collections in her research.

In addition to her duties as president, Faust is the Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard. She previously was dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001- 2007 and taught at the University of Pennsylvania for 25 years prior. Her books include “A Sacred Circle” Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840 – 1860,” “James Henry Hammond and The Old South: A Design for Mastery” and “Mothers of Invention: women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.”

Founded in 1937, the University South Caroliniana Society is a private, non-profit patron organization of the University of South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Library. Through the support of its members, the society works to acquire South Carolina-related research materials of all kinds and from all periods and promotes the preservation, appreciation and use of the materials.

For more information on the South Caroliniana Library, visit the Web site: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/