From the Civil War to 9/11: America Confronts Mass Death

  • Wednesday, June 7
  • 7 to 8:30 P.M.
  • Auditorium
A woman in a green suit jacket speaks with her hands directed at a male moderator, who listens thoughtfully. The heads of audience members appear in silhouette in the foreground.
Photo by Monika Graff

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust chronicled the impact of mass death on American society in her national bestselling book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Faust, a historian, traces this change through later wars and reflects on how this history shaped the American response to 9/11.

Photos

  • A woman in a green suit jacket speaks on a blue-lit auditorium stage to a moderator, whose back is to the camera.
  • A woman in a green suit jacket appears through the silhouetted heads of audience members in a 9/11 Memorial Museum public program.
  • In this close-cropped photograph, a woman in a green suit jacket gestures with her hands while looking out onto an unseen audience.
  • In this wide-angled photograph, A woman in a green suit jacket speaks on a blue-lit auditorium stage to a moderator. The heads of audience members appear in silhouette in the foreground.
Photos by Monika Graff

Video

Full program

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