Tag: david blight
Historian David Blight on the Example of Lincoln and the Pandemic
Yale historian David Blight has an interesting article in The Atlantic this week on how emergencies teach us the importance of government. Blight writes: In…
Video: David Blight at CUNY Conference on Abolition “The Anti-Slavery Bulwark”
The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have…
David Blight Writes About Frederick Douglass’s Dream of a Pluralist Utopia
Pulitizer Prize winning historian David Blight writes in this month’s Atlantic Magazine about the post-Civil War vision of Frederick Douglass. According to Blight, Douglass had…
Book Review: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight published by Simon & Schuster 913 pages (2018) $37.50 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle David Blight has…
Podcast Reenactment of Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” With David Blight
Here is a neat podcast re-enactment of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” delivered in Rochester, NY in…
David Blight on the Centrality of the 14th Amendment to Reconstruction’s Legacy
Several years ago Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Blight published an essay in The Atlantic on the centrality of the 14th Amendment that is well…