Harvard President Wins $50,000 Book Prize, Associated Press, March 10, 2009.Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Faust, 61, received the fourth annual American History Book Prize, the society announced Tuesday. She has written several other books about the Civil War and the South, including "Mothers of Invention" and "A Sacred Circle."
Previous winners include Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Nasaw.
Text Source: Associated Press
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