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Podcast: Capehart
Episode: Drew Gilpin Faust on her mid-century path to civil rights activism
Description: In this Washington Post Live conversation from Sept. 20, Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian and the first female president of Harvard University, discusses her new book, βNecessary Trouble: Growing Up Midcentury,β which chronicles her path toward civil rights activism, and puts her scholarship on the Civil War into greater context.