Tag: david blight
The Past, Present, and Future of the Civil War: Three Experts Discuss
Every year on November 19, the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg College presents the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. This year the topic was “The Past,…
Historian David Blight On the Threat To History
David Blight is one of the most respected academic historians in the United States. A professor at Yale, he has written seven books, including the…
David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian
David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…
Historian David Blight Will Offer Free Series of Lectures on Slavery at Yale Open to Public
The Yale News announced that noted historian David Blight will give a free series of lectures on slavery. Here is the announcement: David W. Blight,…
David Blight Tries to Answer the Question of Whether the Civil War Was Inevitable
David Blight, the Yale historian who has been a leading interpreter of the Civil War Era for more than a quarter century, has an extended…
David Blight Responds to the Attack on the Teaching of History
David Blight, one of America’s foremost historians and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Frederick Douglass, has an article in The Atlantic responding to the coordinated…
Two Hour Interview With Historian David Blight on Frederick Douglass
One of New York City’s most popular radio hosts, Alison Stewart, did a two hour interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight on the life…
Yale Acquires Frederick Douglass Documents
Yale University has acquired a large collection of documents related to Frederick Douglass. According to the New York Times: In 2006, the historian David Blight…
Historian David Blight on The Lost Cause and Lost Statues
With the removal of Stonewall Jackson’s statue in Richmond, the collapse of the Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War is apparently underway. In today’s…
David Blight Writes in NY Times on the History of Voter Suppression
David Blight has an interesting article in the New York Times on how current efforts to suppress the vote echo those tried during the Reconstruction…