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Ranging from the rise of professional undertaking and the widespread use of embalming to the development of a federal system of national cemeteries, this meticulous account reveals the Civil War’s incalculable impact.
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The 28th President of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust is a celebrated historian of the Civil War and the American South. She is the author of five previous books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
