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David W. Blight

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American historian

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David William Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

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2022Golden Plate Award
2019Bancroft Prize
2019Francis Parkman Prize
2019Lincoln Prize
2012Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2002Lincoln Prize
2002Merle Curti Award
2002James A. Rawley Prize
2002Bancroft Prize
2002Ellis W. Hawley Prize
2001Frederick Douglass Prize
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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David William Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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Born 1949 · age 77
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