Lowell Lecture
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Date & Time
Sept. 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Location
John F. Kennedy Library
Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Drew Faust, Harvard University president emerita and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, and Paula A. Johnson, president of Wellesley College and women's health pioneer
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Kennedy Library Forums (jfkforums@nara.gov, 617-514-1643)
Active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements led Drew Faust, Harvard University president emerita and Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, to forge a path of her own to become a historian of the conflicts that shaped the world in which she grew up. Faust discusses her recent memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, with Paula A. Johnson, president of Wellesley College and women's health pioneer.