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David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for
Yale also announced the release of a book, “Yale and Slavery: A History,” by professor David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, and a range of actions and initiatives based ...
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory is a 2001 book by the American historian David W. Blight. [1] The book was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery of 2001.
Davis served as director till June 2004, [8] when historian David. W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, succeeded him as current director as of 2021. [9] The center's mission is to promote the study of all aspects of slavery and its legacy, with focus on the chattel slave system and its destruction.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is a 2018 biography of African American abolitionist, writer, and orator Frederick Douglass, written by historian David W. Blight and published by Simon & Schuster. It won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History. [4] [5]
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. It is a $25,000 award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements. [1]
Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University to share full video and course materials ... David Blight: Spring 2008 History: HIST 202: European Civilization ...
Blight, David W. "Decoration Day: The Origins of Memorial Day in North and South" in Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, eds. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004), online edition pp. 94–129; the standard scholarly history; Buck, Paul H. The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 (1937) [ISBN missing] Cherry, Conrad.