David W. Blight
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David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
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| David W. Blight canonical | 1 |
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author
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | history ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
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Bancroft Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Parkman Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for History NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
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Michigan State University
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Blight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American history
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Civil War history ⓘ history of slavery ⓘ memory studies ⓘ |
| genre | historical non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American historical profession ⓘ |
| name | David W. Blight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
biographical work on Frederick Douglass
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scholarship on the American Civil War ⓘ scholarship on the history and memory of slavery ⓘ scholarship on the memory of the Civil War ⓘ |
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era NERFINISHED ⓘ Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee NERFINISHED ⓘ Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ Voices of the Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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author
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historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
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Sterling Professor of History at Yale University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
African American history
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Civil War memory ⓘ abolitionism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New Haven, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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