David Blight
Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies; Professor; Professor; Professor
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Appointments
- African American Studies Dept
Biography
David W. Blight joined the department in January 2003 as professor of history. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. In the Fall of 2012, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and delivered a lecture on behalf of the humanities inductees, entitled ” The Pleasure and Pain of History.” During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.
URL: http://history.yale.edu/people/david-blight
Departments & Organizations
- African American Studies Dept
- MacMillan Center