COURTESY OF HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA
DAVID W. BLIGHT is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Blight is the author of annotated editions, with introductory essays, of Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom; Robert Penn Warren’s Who Speaks for the Negro; the monograph American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Blight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which received the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among other awards.
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