Bight recently published the article, “The Theft of Lincoln in History, Politics, and Memory,” in Our Lincoln, Eric Foner, ed., (2008).īlight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians, including the Merle Curti prizes for both intellectual and social history. In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives. Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation. This book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John
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(2011-15), rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren and comparing the 100th anniversary of America’s most pivotal event to its 150th, and has begun work on a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass that will be published by Simon and Shuster.īlight is the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), paperback in 2009.
He is currently writing a book on the anticipation of the Civil War sesquicentennial Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. This volume features updated versions of the pedagogical student aids from prior editions, such as the chronology of Frederick Douglass’s life, questions for consideration, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index.David Blight, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985, is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University.
These documents now include a letter written by Douglass to William Lloyd Garrison upon his arrival in the British Isles in 1845, just after publication of the Narrative, the first of many such public letters through which the author and orator revealed how his autobiography was received as well as how he was himself undergoing a personal transformation. Part Three features selected reviews of Douglass’s writings along with his own letters and speeches, with substantial explanatory headnotes to aid students. In this revised edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, David Blight has tightened and revised the introduction to reflect new insights gained from recent research, particularly on how much Douglass modeled his writing on Biblical rhetoric and stories and the abolitionist’s appearance as a character in many works of contemporary fiction. This volume features updated versions of the pedagogical student aids from prior editions, such as the chronology of Frederick Douglass’s life, questions for consideration, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index.
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