David Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, delivered the Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture March 24, 2011, at Vanderbilt University.
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The only thing foggier than war itself may be the path to its frightening, if too often exhilarating, outbreak.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, Yale University Professor of History and author of "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," discusses the Civil War Sesquicentennial.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, Yale University Professor of History and author of "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," discusses the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Part 3 of 3.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, Yale University Professor of History and author of "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," discusses the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Part 2 of 3.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, Yale University Professor of History and author of "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," discusses the Civil War Sesquicentennial.
Read Moreew people in the North welcomed South Carolina’s secession in December 1860, but Frederick Douglass, America’s most prominent former slave and African-American abolitionist, was one of them.
Read MoreHistorians discussed the experiences of both enslaved and free blacks during the Civil War. Several showed pictures during their presentations. After the presentations were given, Professor Horton chaired a panel discussion.
Read MoreHarold Holzer moderated a panel discussion on how President Lincoln’s opposition to slavery while respecting its protection by the Constitution put him at odds with both Southern slaveholders and Northern abolitionists.
Read MoreDavid Blight is a professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, at Yale University. David Blight discusses 9/11, memorialization, and the American identity.
Read MoreThe 60th annual National Book Awards ceremony was held at Cipriani in New York City with Andy Borowitz as the host. The National Book Foundation presented a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Gore Vidal and a Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Dave Eggers. Then authors spoke after their awards were announced.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight is an expert on the US Civil War. He discusses how Americans differ in their perception of the war.
Read MoreThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/, presents historian David Blight on the Underground Railroad.
Read MoreThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/, presents historian David Blight on abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.
Read MoreProfessor David Blight explains the importance of Frederick Douglass.
Read MoreRoundtable discussion with David Blight, R. Brian Ferguson, John Horgan, and Dori Laub.
Read More“Lincoln in His Time and Ours: A Public Symposium” was held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the American Studies Program and History Department of Columbia University to observe the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth in 1809 and to mark the publication of Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World, edited by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company).
Read MoreTwo renowned Civil War historians -- Drew Gilpin Faust and David W. Blight -- examine the lives that were irrevocably changed by the Civil War and the mental and physical suffering of a nation.
Read MoreDavid Blight talked about his book A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt. He was interviewed at the 101st annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, award winning author, gives his lecture "A Slave No More: Two Recently Discovered Narratives and the Story of Emancipation" at the Dole Institute.
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