The 60th annual National Book Awards ceremony was held at Cipriani in New York City with Andy Borowitz as the host. The National Book Foundation presented a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Gore Vidal and a Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Dave Eggers. Then authors spoke after their awards were announced.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight is an expert on the US Civil War. He discusses how Americans differ in their perception of the war.
Read MoreThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/, presents historian David Blight on the Underground Railroad.
Read MoreThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://www.gilderlehrman.org/, presents historian David Blight on abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.
Read MoreProfessor David Blight explains the importance of Frederick Douglass.
Read MoreRoundtable discussion with David Blight, R. Brian Ferguson, John Horgan, and Dori Laub.
Read More“Lincoln in His Time and Ours: A Public Symposium” was held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the American Studies Program and History Department of Columbia University to observe the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth in 1809 and to mark the publication of Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World, edited by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company).
Read MoreTwo renowned Civil War historians -- Drew Gilpin Faust and David W. Blight -- examine the lives that were irrevocably changed by the Civil War and the mental and physical suffering of a nation.
Read MoreDavid Blight talked about his book A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt. He was interviewed at the 101st annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
Read MoreDavid W. Blight, award winning author, gives his lecture "A Slave No More: Two Recently Discovered Narratives and the Story of Emancipation" at the Dole Institute.
Read MoreDavid Blight was interviewed on stage by James Basker about his book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt.
Read MoreWho freed the slaves? The answer is more complex...
Read MoreDavid Blight talked about his book [A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt. He spoke briefly about the history of emancipation in America.
Read More"What struck me most clearly about David Blight's magnificent new book A Slave No More, which I recently reviewed, was just how close to us the nefarious effects of slavery remain."
Read MoreDavid Blight on Slave Narratives, by Coy Barefoot. • "Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving with only a handful of those in the first-person.
Read More"The chaos of Civil War meant only one thing to America's four million slaves: hope. With armies on the march, and the old social order crumbling,
Read MoreDavid Blight discusses his latest work Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom. His new book includes previously unpublished narratives from two former slaves, offering readers a poignant, painful story of lives at once heroic and inspiring.
"In American mythology, the freeing of the slaves is a top-to-bottom affair: Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862,
Read More"For many years historians in the United States, even scholars who challenged the relatively benign view of slavery and harsh view of Reconstruction that dominated the academy until at least the 1950s,
Read MoreModerated by Professor Blight, a panel of black scholars from history, law, linguistics, and business discussed the nature of historical justice in regard to slavery in the United States and how America should respond to its support of slavery during its founding and over several generations.
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