Death and the Civil War
In a rare on-campus film premiere Tuesday, Harvard screened “Death and the Civil War,” a documentary by Ric Burns, co-producer of the acclaimed 1990 PBS series “The Civil War.” Burns said the new film was inspired by Harvard President Drew Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.” The two-hour screening before a packed house was timed to start an hour before the film’s television premiere on the PBS history series “American Experience.” The event at the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) Loeb Drama Center capped a publicity tour by Faust and Burns, including stops in Washington, D.C., and New York. On Monday, Faust appeared on “The Colbert Report,” where she told the blustery television host, “It’s never dumb to get an education.” Watching was Mark Samuels, executive director of “American Experience,” which is produced at WGBH in Boston. “You may lose her to television,” he quipped of Faust to the audience. “Last night she...