Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 7 - 9 PM
Place: ISU, Tilson Auditorium
Cost: Free

David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman
Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at
North Central College in Illinois, at Harvard University, and at Amherst College.

In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his new biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, Frederick
Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which has won over seven book awards including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, the Bancroft Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize.

Blight is featured in many documentary films on American history on PBS, the BBC, and other networks. He wrote
one of the chapters for the book, To Dream A World Anew: A History of the African American People, a companion volume for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. His lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era at Yale can be found online.
Blight has always been a teacher first.