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Bachelors History Michigan State University

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According to Wikipedia, 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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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) (426)
The World the Slave Traders Made: Is there a Postrevisionism in Slavery Historiography?@@@Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. (1989) (96)
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989) (78)
Beyond the battlefield : race, memory, & the American Civil War (2004) (72)
"For Something beyond the Battlefield": Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War (1989) (64)
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (2013) (45)
Memory in Mind and Culture: The Memory Boom: Why and Why Now? (2009) (35)
Race and Reunion (2001) (34)
Frederick Douglass : new literary and historical essays (1991) (25)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) (24)
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery (2018) (24)
Why The Civil War Came (1996) (17)
Union & emancipation : essays on politics and race in the Civil War era (1998) (17)
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011) (13)
Joshua Leavitt, evangelical abolitionist (1990) (9)
The Columbian Orator (2020) (9)
A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland (2016) (8)
Nathan Irvin Huggins, the art of history, and the irony of the American dream (1994) (7)
When This Cruel War Is over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (1992) (7)
A Fluid Frontier (2016) (5)
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. By Ann Douglas. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. xiv, 606 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-374-11620-2.) (1996) (4)
American Oracle (2013) (4)
What Will Peace Among The Whites Bring?': Reunion And Race in the Struggle Over the Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (1998) (4)
Perceptions of Southern Intransigence and the Rise of Radical Antislavery Thought, 1816-1830 (1983) (4)
Fifty years of freedom: The memory of emancipation at the civil war semicentennial, 1911–15 (2000) (3)
CABI: a century of scientific endeavour (2011) (3)
Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse (2012) (3)
John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829–65. By William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. viii + 478 pp. $34.95.) (1990) (3)
Emancipation in the United States (2005) (3)
William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: His Radicalism and His Legacy for Our Time (2008) (3)
Beyond the battlefield (2002) (3)
Fossilized Lies: A Reflection on Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out (2005) (3)
Composite Nation? (2019) (2)
Charles Hamilton Houston: The Legal Scholar Who Laid the Foundation for Integrated Higher Education in the United States. (2001) (1)
Up from “Twoness”: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of W.E.B. Dubois’s Concept of Double Consciousness (1990) (1)
Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. By Karen L. Cox. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xx, 218 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2625-3.) (2004) (1)
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kirk Savage. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv, 270 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01616-X.) (1999) (1)
Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation (2017) (1)
A divine discontent : the life of Nathan S.S. Beman (1986) (1)
Homer with a Camera, Our Iliad Without the Aftermath: Ken Burns's Dialogue with Historians (1997) (1)
A People and a Nation (2006) (1)
Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (review) (2003) (1)
The Underground Railroad in History and Memory: Passages to Freedom (2006) (1)
The Meaning or the Fight: Frederick Douglass and the Memory of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (2016) (1)
Roundtable Discussion on Deborah Willis’s The Black Civil War Soldier: The Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (2022) (0)
Civil Religion, Civil Activism, and Afro-American Identity: Antebellum Black Leaders and the Art of Biography@@@Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee.@@@John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65.@@@Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy before the Civil War. (1990) (0)
Niche Publications and Subcultural Authenticity: The case of Stealth magazine (2012) (0)
Quarrel Forgotten or Revolution Remembered? Reunion and Race in the Memory of the Civil War,1875–1913 (2008) (0)
Lecture 19: To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings (2008) (0)
Lincoln in American Memory. By Merrill D. Peterson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 448 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-506570-0.) (1994) (0)
Contributors (2013) (0)
Lecture 10: The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis (2011) (0)
Lecture 15: Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy (2008) (0)
Contributors to This Issue (1986) (0)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877: “Lecture 17: Homefronts and Battlefronts, 1845-1877: 'Hard War' and the Social Impact of the Civil War” (2008) (0)
"Swarthy Spectre at the Nation's Feast": W.E.B. Du Bois and American Historical Memory (1996) (0)
Lecture 7: ÔA Hell of a StormÕ: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854Ð55 (2011) (0)
Many Lives in One: The Legacies of Frederick Douglass (2018) (0)
Lincoln on the Moral Bankruptcy of Slavery: Inside the Lincoln-Douglass Debates of 1858 (2007) (0)
Lecture 17, “Home fronts and Battlefronts: ‘Hard War’ and the Social Impact of the Civil War” (2011) (0)
Preface (2021) (0)
The Mind of Frederick Douglass (review) (2012) (0)
Anti-Slavery Movements, Part 3 (2012) (0)
Hating and Loving the “Real” Abe Lincolns (2011) (0)
David W. Blight (1997) (0)
1. William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: His Radicalism and His Legacy for Our Time (2017) (0)
Prologue. “Five Score Years Ago” Civil War and Civil Rights (2011) (0)
The Stolen Memory of the Civil War (2001) (0)
Young Frederick Douglass (2018) (0)
THE BIG MYTHS WE LIVE (2011) (0)
Lecture 6: Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 (2011) (0)
phillip shaw paludan. “A People's Contest”: The Union and Civil War, 1861–1865. (New American Nation Series.) New York: Harper and Row. 1988. Pp. xxii, 486. $27.95 (1990) (0)
Constitutionalism and the Limits of Character (2005) (0)
America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920 Ellen M. Litwicki (2001) (0)
Afterword: “From the Archives and from the Heart” (2007) (0)
Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle. By Milton C. Sernett. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 199 pp. $35.00 (1987) (0)
Making Sense of John Brown's Raid (2010) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Leon Litwack and August Meier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiv + 344 pp. $24.95.) (1989) (0)
New south nation : Woodrow Wilson's generation and the rise of the south, 1884-1920 (2011) (0)
Chapter four. “This Country Is My Subject” James Baldwin (2011) (0)
The Restoration of Black History: Benjamin Quarles and the Paradox of Race@@@Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. (1989) (0)
Chapter three. “Lincoln and Lee and All That” Edmund Wilson (2011) (0)
Lecture 2, “Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America’s ‘Peculiar’ Region” (2011) (0)
Delia's Tears (2017) (0)
Chapter two. A Formula for Enjoying the War Bruce Catton (2011) (0)
BONDAGE AND FREEDOM: FREDERICK DOUGLASS (2018) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Epilogue. “The Wisdom of Tragedy” Ralph Ellison Had a Dream (2011) (0)
"Nothing Capable of Being Memorized is History," R. G. Collingwood (2010) (0)
Chapter one. “Gods and Devils Aplenty” Robert Penn Warren (2011) (0)
The Private Worlds of Frederick Douglass@@@Frederick Douglass. (1993) (0)

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom