The 2002 Bliss Carnochan Lecture by:


Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and Author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

"Missing in Action:
Naming the Dead in the
American Civil War"

April 19, 2002 @ 3:30 p.m.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanties Center
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford University
Reception to follow

Information on Drew Gilpin Faust:

• "Drew Gilpin Faust: A Biographical Sketch" About Radcliffe
• "An Interview with Drew Faust" Radcliffe Quarterly Spring 2000 VOLUME 85 NO.4
  
• "Drew Gilpin Faust Named Dean of Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study at Harvard University" Harvard Gazette April 3, 2000.
• Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
  • Overview
  • Excerpts
  • CSPAN Booknotes Transcript: Air date: September 1, 1996
  
  
  

Information on the photograph:

PHOTOGRAPHER: Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
TITLE: Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den, Gettysburg, Pa.
DATE: July, 1863
CREDIT: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs [LC-B8171-7942]

SUMMARY: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. NOTES:This photograph is titled "The home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg" In Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Reprint; New York : Dover Publications, Inc. 1959), plate 41. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0205 CALL NUMBER: LC-B817-7942 <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-B8171-7942 (b&w film neg.) http://www.loc.gov