History Department with David Blight

David W. Blight, PhD, Yale University, is a Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of a dozen books, including Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom, and has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Abraham Lincoln Prize, among others, for his work in relation to Douglas.