David Blight appears in the following:
Full Bio: The Early Life of Frederick Douglass
Monday, February 22, 2021
We launch the February installment of our Full Bio series with historian David W. Blight who joins us to discuss his Pulitzer-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Impeachment: Catharsis and Impunity
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Senate’s trial and acquittal of Donald Trump left many with mixed emotions. But did it move us any closer to a reckoning with the worst of America’s political culture?
MAGA, the New Confederate Lost Cause
Monday, November 16, 2020
White supremacist myths turn defeated leaders into heroic victors. Will Donald Trump now get the same transfiguration as Robert E. Lee?
Ex-Slaves Tell Their Stories
Monday, November 26, 2007
Only a handful of first-person accounts by American slaves who ran away and freed themselves are known to exist. Two of those accounts, by former slaves Wallace Turnage (1846–1916) and John Washington (1838–1918), have now been published in a new book by historian David Blight, called A Slave No More. ...
