David Blight

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Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University

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David Blight Videos

  • Live Lecture: Yale Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight
    Yale Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight will lead a lecture with Wright Tech on Thursday, December 14, 2023, in the Tiered...
  • David W. Blight, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"
    David W. Blight discusses his book, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom", at Politics and Prose on 10/29/18. Blight, the award-winning ...
  • David Blight - The Civil War in American Memory
    An OAH Distinguished Lecture by David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale...

David Blight Books

  • Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
    Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
  • Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
    Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
  • Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee
    Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee
  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
    American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
  • A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.)
    A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.)
  • Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
    Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
  • Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
    Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
  • Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee
    Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee
  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
    American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
  • A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.)
    A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.)

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