He has also taught at Harvard University, at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and for seven years was a public high school teacher in his hometown, Flint, Michigan. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and did his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University. He teaches summer institutes for secondary teachers and for park rangers and historians in the National Park Service, devoting a good deal of time to these and many other public history initiatives.īlight has also been a consultant to several documentary films, including the 1998 PBS series, “Africans in America,” and “The Reconstruction Era” (2004). Blight lectures widely on Douglass, Du Bois, and problems in public history and American historical memory. He is also series advisor and editor for the Bedford Books series in American History and Culture, a popular series of teaching books for the college level. He is one of the authors of the bestselling American history textbook for the college level, A People and a Nation (Houghton Mifflin). The edited volume, Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory, was published by Smithsonian Press in 2004 and is the companion book for the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.īlight is also a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and other newspapers, and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. 1797, NYU Press, 1997), the book of oratory and antislavery writings that Frederick Douglass discovered while a youth. Press, 1997) and Caleb Bingham, The Columbian Orator (orig. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Books, 1997) co-editor with Brooks Simpson, Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (Kent State Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Bedford Books, 1993) co-editor with Robert Gooding-Williams, W.E.B. Blight is the editor of and author of six books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Univ. Other published works include a book of essays, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989). Blight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians, including the Merle Curti prizes for both intellectual and social history. In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.īlight is the author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, 2011) and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), this book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. 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. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. Blight joined the faculty at Yale in January 2003.
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