Cette auteure est une historienne et administratrice d'université américaine. Ses travaux se concentrent sur l'étude de l'histoire et de la société américaines. Par son écriture, elle contribue à une compréhension plus approfondie du passé.
The book delves into the experiences of over half a million women from slaveholding families in the Confederacy during the Civil War. As men left for battle, these women faced the daunting challenges of managing farms, supporting their families, and dealing with the complexities of enslaved individuals growing increasingly restless. Drew Faust presents a vivid portrayal of their struggles and resilience amid a time of profound crisis and uncertainty, highlighting the significant yet often overlooked roles these women played in the South's wartime narrative.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white images
