Yale University professor David Blight discussed a series of short biographies from Yale University Press that illustrate the concept of African American identity. About Books also reported …
831 viewsYale University history professor David Blight recalled the life of public intellectual and orator, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). He was joined in conversation by Eddie Glaude, chair of th…
2,887 viewsPulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight gave a lecture on Frederick Douglass and the ConstitutionMr. Blight, the author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, spoke at Marymount Unive…
1,441 viewsYale University American History professor David Blight talked about the history of divisive presidential elections in the U.S. and parallels between the 2020 election and the election of 18…
1,615 viewsHistorian Manuel Barcia, author of, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The …
370 viewsAndrea Barnet, author of Visionary Women:How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World;" David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass; and Andrew Roberts, au…
449 viewsFour authors talked about biography and their books on the lives of legendary African Americans. The participants were David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom; Jeffrey Stewart, …
823 viewsStephanie Jones-Rogers (They Were Her Property), Caitlin Rosenthal (Accounting for Slavery), and David Blight (Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom) talked about slavery and foundations of…
920 viewsBiographers Raymond Arsenault (Arthur Ashe: A Life) and David Blight (Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom) talked about their autobiographies of two famous African-American activist-leade…
450 viewsBook TV presented coverage of the 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The winners were Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Ne…
549 viewsHistorians Peter Onuf, David Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed discussed defining equality and the Declaration of Independence. They talked about the views and interpretations of W.E.B. DuBois,…
1,408 viewsHistorians responded to audience questions about notable figures during the Civil War era. Highlighted people included Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, abolitionist and Republican Party ac…
1,369 views2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment’s addition to the U.S. Constitution. The measure addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. In this program, Civil …
778 viewsHistorian David Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition presented a talk titled “Frederick Douglass at 200.” Professor Blight discuss…
1,004 viewsHistorian James Oakes talked about runaway slaves and the consequences of fugitive slave laws. Professor Oakes argued that tensions between slave and free states over fugitive slaves was one…
1,570 viewsHistorians talked about the social and political impact of several events leading up to the Civil War, including the Fugitive Slave Act and abolitionist John Brown’s raid of a federal armory…
1,171 viewsA panel discussed race and the role it played in determining citizenship in the mid-19th century. They explored the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and Fugitive Slave Law, as well as Abrah…
777 viewsHistorians discussed Civil War-era politics. They looked at the realignment of political parties, populism, and anti-slavery politics in the 1840s and 1850s leading up to the Civil War.
1,118 viewsThe U.S. Capitol Historical Society 2006 Spring Conference “Congress and Slavery in the 1840s and 1850s” was the third in the series, “The National Capitol in a Nation Divided: Congress and …
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