David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...
Three of Yale’s most esteemed historians will team up next fall to teach a course exploring the nature of American identity from 1776 to the present as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an ...
Arm of an unfinished Statue of Liberty, at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition. In a rousing lecture finale to “America at 250: A History,” distinguished Yale professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and ...
David Blight, a renowned historian whose new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, has been published to glowing reviews, will be in Rochester Dec. 3 and 4 for two engagements co-sponsored by ...