David W Blight
David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. See less
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David W Blight book reviews
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Two Narratives Of Emancipation
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are among a handful of former slaves in the Old South who wrote famous narratives of their lives in slavery and their ultimate escape to freedom. It is a rare ... Read More
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Du Bois, writing in 1903, takes issue with Booker T. Washington?s gradualist paradigm of addressing race inequality and calls instead for immediate equal rights, regardless of race or gender. The ... Read More
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Is "history" reality or memory?
by bscda1, Aug 26, 2007
A nation?s memory is composed of many facets some of which are mythical while others are more accurate. David W. Blight?s book examines in detail how American memory of the Civil War during the ... Read More
