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David W. Blight

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. Recently, Blight has written A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize. In 2011, he published a new book, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, and he is at work on a new biography of Frederick Douglass.

Articles by this Author

Bruce Catton , Spring 2012 | Vol. 62, No. 1
Notes about the famous historian and American Heritage editor