David W. Blight
1949
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: historian, university teacher
award received: Lincoln Prize, Frederick Douglass Prize, Bancroft Prize, James A. Rawley Prize, Merle Curti Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
official website: davidwblight.com
David William Blight (born 1949) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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