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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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Academic, Anti-Racism, Authors, Civil Rights, Government, History, Professors, Social Activism
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David Blight Biography

David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at North Central College in Illinois, at Harvard University, and at Amherst College. In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," which has won over seven book awards including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, the Bancroft Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize.

Blight is also the author of “Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee” (1989); “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” (2001), which garnered eight book awards including the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Award, the Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize; A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of “Emancipation” (2008), which won the Connecticut book award for best book in non-fiction; and “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era” (2011), which won the Aniston-Wolf Prize in non-fiction for best book on race and racism. He has edited some six books, including editions of Frederick Douglass's Narrative and “My Bondage and My Freedom”; W. E. B. Du Bois's “The Souls of Black Folk”; and Robert Penn Warren's “Who Speaks for the Negro. ”.

Blight is featured in many documentary films on American history on PBS, the BBC, and other networks. He wrote one of the chapters for the book, To Dream A World Anew: A History of the African American People, a companion volume for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He writes frequently for the popular press, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other journals. Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Blight has always been a teacher first. At the beginning of his career, he spent seven years as a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and did his Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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David Blight Videos

  • Live Lecture: Yale Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight
    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, "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
    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...
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David Blight Books

  • 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

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