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Faust was born
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Earned A.B. from Bryn Mawr College
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Earned A.M. and Ph.D in American Civilization from University of Pennsylvania
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Joined Penn faculty as assistant professor of American Civilization, eventually rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History
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Published A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860
Published A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 -
Published The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South and James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Master
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Diagnosed with breast cancer
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Published Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
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Published Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Won the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize for Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Appointed first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, successor to Radcliffe college
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Named member of "Time 100"
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Selected as the next Harvard president
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Appointment as next Harvard president was made official
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Awarded honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Bowdoin College
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Delivered first installation address as president of Harvard
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Greatly improved financial aid at Harvard
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Published This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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Awarded honorary Doctorate from University of Pennsylvania and honorary Doctor of Humanities from Yale University
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Received Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for This Republic of Suffering, included in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women