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David W. Blight is a historian known for his work on the American Civil War and how the United States has remembered it, including his books Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
David W. Blight was born on the 21st of March 1949, in Flint, Michigan, where he grew up in a mobile home park.
David W. Blight won the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies at Yale University, and he directs the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
David W. Blight's 2024 book Yale and Slavery: A History concluded that a multitude of Yale University's founders, rectors and early presidents, faculty, donors, and graduates played roles in sustaining slavery, its ideological underpinnings, and its power.
David W. Blight was one of 153 signers of the Harper's Letter, published in Harper's Magazine in July 2020 under the title A Letter on Justice and Open Debate, which warned that the free exchange of information and ideas was becoming more constricted.