Events

November 3

"Trump Versus History: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are."

Historians "have opened the gates of historical knowledge to myriad new subjects and methods that have educated a largely curious and willing world. Now we have to mobilize to defend our profession not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion." What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?, David W. Blight; The New Republic, September, 2025

In this TNR Live, Blight talks with some fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.

With

David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University

Geraldo Cadava, Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor of History, Northwestern University; contributing writer, The New Yorker

Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond

Molly Worthen, journalist, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Join them Monday, November 3, 2025 | 4:00-5:00 PM EST | Virtual

For more information and to register:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-versus-history-ii-tickets-1735550380909?aff=oddtdtcreator

See their recent articles for The New Republic here:https://newrepublic.com/series/67/trump-history-authoritarianism

News

From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee? (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

April 05, 2013 in Speeches •

From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee? Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War

Yale University professor and Civil War scholar David W. Blight shares his analysis of the impact of the Civil War on the ideas and psyche of Frederick Douglass.