DAVID BLIGHT DANCE FACEBOOK FULL

Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Books, 1997) co-editor with Brooks Simpson, Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (Kent State Univ.

of Massachusetts Press, 1992) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Bedford Books, 1993) co-editor with Robert Gooding-Williams, W.E.B. Blight is the editor of and author of introductions for six other books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Univ. Other published works include a book of essays, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989). Press, 2011) “Mirror of Memory,” American Interest, August, 2011 and numerous op-ed columns for newspapers, including the New York Times and the New York Daily News.īlight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians, including the Merle Curti prizes for both intellectual and social history. Blight recently published the articles, “The Theft of Lincoln in History, Politics, and Memory,” in Our Lincoln, Eric Foner, ed., (2008) and “Hating and Loving the ‘Real’ Abe Lincolns: Lincoln and the American South,” in Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton, eds., The Global Lincoln, (Oxford Univ. A Slave No More garnered three book prizes, including the Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction. In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives. This book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation. Blight is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), paperback in 2009.

American Oracle is an intellectual history of Civil War memory, rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin. Press, 2014), and the monograph, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, published August 2011), which received the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book in non-fiction on racism and human diversity. Press, 2013), Robert Penn Warren’s Who Speaks for the Negro, (Yale Univ. For that institution he wrote the recently published essay, “Will It Rise: September 11 in American Memory.” In 2012, Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and delivered an induction address, “The Pleasure and Pain of History.”īlight’s newest books include annotated editions, with introductory essay, of Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (Yale Univ. Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies, and as a member of a small team of advisors to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum team of curators.

DAVID BLIGHT DANCE FACEBOOK FULL

He is currently writing a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass that will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2015. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B.

In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19 th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003.

David blight dance facebook