Forum Network

Public stations. Community Partners. World-class speakers. Free lecture videos. See what you think.

a public media service of

Public Broadcasting Service National Public Radio

By Topic

By Region

By Period

Speaker Profiles

David W. Blight

David W. Blight

professor, American history, Yale University

http://www.davidwblight.com/

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College for 13 years. 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. [more]

Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours

February 9, 2009

A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.

Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

David W. Blight

David W. Blight, Yale professor and historian, discusses his latest work, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.

Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

David W. Blight

November 15, 2007

David Blight discusses his latest work Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom. His new book includes previously unpublished narratives from two former slaves, offering readers a poignant, painful story of lives at once heroic and inspiring.

William Lloyd Garrison at 200: Meanings for Our Own Time

David W. Blight

February 2, 2006

Dr. Blight discusses the legacy of Garrison's unique brand of abolitionist radicalism, its roots, and the challenges it raises in the present. William Lloyd Garrison, passionate Boston abolitionist, was born 200 years ago.

Memory of the Slave Trade in New England

Beverly Morgan-Welch

A panel discusses the way New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years, from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.)

Author: David W. Blight Ph. D.

Publisher: Mariner Books (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 320 pages

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Author: David W. Blight

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2002)

Binding: Paperback, 528 pages

The Columbian Orator

Author:

Publisher: NYU Press (1998)

Binding: Paperback, 300 pages

Login or register to post comments