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Online Videos Slavery and the Literary Imagination (April 1, 2009) The 2009 David Brion Davis Lectures Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University; E.L. Doctorow, New York University; Caryl Phillips, Yale University; and Natasha Trethewey, Emory University present a panel discussion on their poetry and literature. (2 hours, 9 minutes) This Republic of Suffering: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author (October 29, 2008) Drew Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University Drew Gilpin Faust, historian and President of Harvard University, and David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, have a conversation about Faust's recent book, The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, which looks at the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans.