David Blight will give the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies’ Distinguished Lecture at Northwestern University on Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 4:30pm-6:30pm. His lecture is entitled "Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass--Why and Why Now: The Post Civil War Years."

Northwestern University's Center for African American History and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies will co-host this event. It will be held at Harris Hall on the Northwestern University campus (Harris Hall 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208).

For more information contact: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch at: (847) 467-0885 / efp@northwestern.edu or go to: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/502858

For more information about the Center for Historical Studies: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/calendar/2639