Events

The Greater Reconstruction: American Democracy after the Civil War

April 20

David Blight will take part in the University of Connecticut, Storrs, national conference, “The Greater Reconstruction: American Democracy after the Civil War,” April 19-20, 2019. The conference will be held in the UConn Wilbur Cross North Reading Room, 233 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269. His plenary talk, "Hatred of States' Rights: Frederick Douglass's Vision of Reconstruction," will be part of the concluding plenary panel on Reconstruction at 3:15pm on Saturday, April 20th, 2019.

For more information: http://www.cvent.com/events/reconstruction-conference/event-summary-33ded93de8984e5fb0d59029f690914d.aspx

Bay Area Book Festival

May 4

As part of the Bay Area Book Festival on Saturday, May 4, from 1:30pm to 2:45pm, David Blight will discuss his new book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018), with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor, Jr. on the San Francisco Chronicle Stage in the Park.

On Sunday, May 5, from 1:30pm to 2:45pm, David Blight, along with Stephanie Jones-Rogers and Caitlin Rosenthal, will examine how the brutal history of slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism and shaped today’s racial and economic inequality. This Bay Area Book Festival event will be held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shattuck Plaza.

For more information about the Saturday, May 4 event: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/prophet-of-freedom-frederick-douglass/

For more information about the Sunday, May 5 event: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/the-business-of-brutality-slavery-and-the-foundations-of-capitalism/

For more information about the Bay Area Book Festival: https://www.baybookfest.org/

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Book Talk | Concord Museum

May 15

David Blight will discuss his new book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018), with John Stauffer, Harvard University professor of English and American Literature, American Studies and African American Studies. This event will be held at the Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA 01742, May 15th, 2019, 7:00pm.

For more information about the book: http://www.davidwblight.com/books/#prophet

For more information about the event: https://concordmuseum.org/events/frederick-douglass-prophet-of-freedom/

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David Blight, Civil War Symposium (Transylvania University - Lexington, KY)

April 28, 2011 in Speeches •

David Blight, professor of American history at Yale University, speaks about the nature of Civil War memory in the border states by referencing moving passages in the work of Kentucky author and literary critic Robert Penn Warren.