David W. Blight

David W. Blight
David W. Blight at the 2019 National Book Festival
Born
David William Blight

(1949-03-21) March 21, 1949 (age 75)
Spouse
Karin B. H. Beckett
(m. 1987)
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisKeeping Faith in Jubilee (1985)
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplineAmerican history
Institutions
Notable works
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David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]

  1. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021".