David W. Blight
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David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. Blight grew up in Flint, Michigan, where he taught in a public high school for seven years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, and is currently the director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. His primary focus in on the American Civil War and its aftermath. He has written several books including Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (2007).[1][2] Along with Eric Foner and Steven Hahn he focuses his writing on Reconstruction history. Blight has been awarded a Bancroft Prize, a Lincoln Prize, and a Frederick Douglass Prize. Blight also wrote an introduction for "A Narrative In The Life of Frederick Douglass".
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- ^ Jonathan Yardley (18 November 2007). Book Review. The Washington Post. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Harcourt, 2007. ISBN 0-15101-232-6.
- ^ Chat Transcript (14 November 2007). Historian David Blight on two newly published slave narratives. Court TV.
- Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
- Yale History Faculty: David W. Blight
- Historian David Blight to Direct the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale
- The Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
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