Though his appointment is effective January 2003, Blight will begin teaching at Yale in the fall. Previous to his university career, he taught for seven years in a public high school in his hometown, Flint, Michigan. He was also senior Fulbright Professor in American Studies at the University of Munich in Germany in 1992-93. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, taught at Harvard and at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. “His frequent service for the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Park Service-only a partial list of his commitments-testify to his eager activity in bringing the best of history to the profession and the public.”īlight is currently the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst, where he has been teaching for 13 years.īefore becoming a faculty member at Amherst, Blight, who holds a Ph.D. David Blight is a professor of history at Yale University, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the. “David Blight is a historian of breathtaking sophistication and energy, a teacher of legendary success.” Butler says. for this event online or by calling (513) 333-7586. history-the epic struggle over slavery and its scars on American culture, history and society,” says Jon Butler, chair of Yale’s history department, of Blight’s two books.īlight has contributed chapters and articles to many publications, most prominently to the widely used college textbook of American history “A People and a Nation.” “ have recast the ways we understand the central event of nineteenth-century U.S. The winner of such coveted honors as the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Lincoln Prize, three awards from the Organization of American Historians and the Bancroft Prize, “Race and Reunion,” explores how, in the interest of reunification, the country ignored the racist underpinnings of the war, leaving a legacy of racial conflict. His “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory,” which was published in 2001, has earned an unprecedented number of awards and presented a new way of understanding the nation’s collective response to its bloodiest war. Blight, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the Civil War and its legacy, will join the history department at Yale.īlight’s first major book, “Frederick Douglass’s Civil War,” helped to establish his reputation as a preeminent scholar of the period. The Brennan Center Jorde Symposium is an annual event, created in 1996 to sponsor top scholarly discourse and writing from various perspectives that were central to the legacy of William J. He is also a proud Social Science Spartan, graduating with his bachelor’s degree in History in 1971 and then a Master's degree in 1976. James Oakes - Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York David Blight is a world-renowned historian, a critically-acclaimed author and a beloved professor at Yale University. Martha Jones - Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University Author of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" He will be joined by two distinguished commentators: Professor Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins University) and James Oakes (CUNY Graduate Center)ĭavid Blight - Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. This is not simply a single lecture, as you can listen or watch all. One of the classes that Blight teaches at Yale University is available online through Open Yale Courses. Saturday, ApAnita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. Professor Blight’s lecture will probe the thought and activism of Frederick Douglass as both a moral suasionist and political abolitionist, concentrating on the abolitionist leader’s evolving views of the Constitution –from an early view that our founding charter was hopelessly complicit with slavery to his eventual embrace of a thoroughgoing antislavery interpretation. Professor of History, Yale University American Oracle: The Memory of the Civil War. Yale University Professor David Blight, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, will deliver the Jorde Symposium lecture at NYU School of Law on March 9, 2023, on the theme of “Frederick Douglass and the Two Constitutions: Proslavery, and Antislavery.” 40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 map
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