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I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Always Becoming Books Done Even Ever Getting Happened Imagined Life Lived More My Life Never Professor Sort Step Sure Than Things Thought Time Would Writing

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I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Arrangements Assumed Child Complexities Etiquette Generally Granted Learn Learning Lived Manners More Obligation Piece Question Racial Social Taken Taken For Granted Them Timeless Were Where World

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I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were no regularized processes in either Northern or Southern Army for notifying next of kin.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: American American History Any Century Civil Civil War Conflict Death Embarked Entering Front Global History Middle New Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Proved Relationship Slaughter States Than Twentieth Twentieth Century United United States War Western World World War Would

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The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: About Animals Anticipate Behave Choose Death Die Distinguishes Face How Humanity Humans Living Lot Manage Need Only Other Particular Things Us Worry

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I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Bold Childhood Even Ever Expectation Family Get Get Married Grow Grow Up Had Home Job Married Me Notions Outside Sometime Sure Think Up Veterinarian Wanted I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: September 18th, 1947

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