Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard president wins $50,000 book prize from N-Y Historical Society <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/67053.html> Source: *AP*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031002056.html>(3-10-09) Virginia-born Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War." Faust, 61, received the fourth annual American History Book Prize, the society announced Tuesday. She has written several other books about the Civil War and the South, including "Mothers of Invention" and "A Sacred Circle." Posted on History News Network, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 -- Jon Kukla www.JonKukla.com ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html