Drew Gilpin Faust Wins $1 Million Kluge Prize

The historian Drew Gilpin Faust has won this year’s $1 million John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, an award administered by the Library of Congress that recognizes work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes.  Dr. Faust, 70, is the author of six books about the Civil War era, including “Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War” (1996) and “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (2008). She will retire at the end of the month as president of Harvard University (MA) , where she was the first woman to lead the school.