The featured speaker for the 2012 Researching New York Conference, David W. Blight will present a lecture, "America Divided, Then and Now: The Civil War in our National and Local Imagination."
Read MoreThe featured speaker for the 2012 Researching New York Conference, David W. Blight will present a lecture, "America Divided, Then and Now: The Civil War in our National and Local Imagination." One of the foremost authorities on the U.S. Civil War, Blight is Professor of American History and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. He has authored numerous works including, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011) and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002).
A panel of professors and authors talked about the legal, economic, academic and policy frameworks that help define modern day slavery and human trafficking.
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?309205-3/defining-slavery
November 9, 2012
Historians discuss 18th and 19th Century analogs and their relationships to contemporary slavery and abolition, as well as “white slavery” and the emphasis on human rights in the 20th Century.
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference (1st day of conference)
http://www.c-span.org/video/?309205-2/roots-modern-day-slavery
Author and historian David W. Blight presents his lecture "From Emancipation to Civil Rights and Beyond: Legacies of the Civil War at 150."
Read MoreDavid Blight presents at the 2012 Induction Ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held on Saturday, October 6, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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David W. Blight, Professor, Department of History at Yale University, speaks about his book titled "AMERICAN ORACLE: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era."
Read MoreThe 77th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards were presented to “books that have made an important contribution to society’s understanding of racism and diversity of human cultures.” Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presented a lifetime achievement award to Arnold Rampersad, humanities professor at Stanford University and author of biographies of Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes.
Read MoreThe 77th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards were presented to “books that have made an important contribution to society’s understanding of racism and diversity of human cultures.” Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presented a lifetime achievement award to Arnold Rampersad, humanities professor at Stanford University and author of biographies of Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes. Awards are also given for non-fiction, David Blight, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era and David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others and for fiction, Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues: A Novel. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards were held at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?308485-1/2012-anisfieldwolf-book-awards
David Blight | Campus, Case Western Reserve University
SUPPRESSING the black vote is a very old story in America, and it has never been just a Southern thing.
Read MoreA Context for Terror: Choosing From the Many Lessons of Sept. 11
Patricia Cohen leads an online discussion with David Blight and other experts about the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum.
Read MoreIn eight years of planning a museum at the National September 11 Memorial, every step has been muddied by contention. (David Blight is quoted in Patricia Cohen's New York Times article on the September 11 Memorial Museum.)
Read MoreON May 17, 1962, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an extraordinary manifesto to the White House. Constructed as both a moral appeal and a legal brief, the 64-page document called on President John F. Kennedy to issue a “second Emancipation Proclamation,” an executive order outlawing segregation — just as President Abraham Lincoln had done with slavery a century earlier...
Years of Anguish III: Slavery and Emancipation
Fredericksburg Baptist Church
Historians and authors discuss ongoing legacies of the Civil War - the issues and controversies that are still being borne out today.
Read MoreEach year, Time magazine selects a single person who had the most influence on events during the previous twelve months. If the same question had been posed in the year 1862, who would Time have selected as the Person of the Year?
Read MoreThree historians held a discussion on race and the role it played leading up to and during the Civil War and how the persistence of resentment and unhealed wounds from the war’s outcome and immediate aftermath have impacted racial issues ever since.
Read MoreAuthor and historian David Blight connected the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement during the recent Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History event.
Read MoreHistorian and author, Dr. David Blight, discussed America's fascination with the Civil War along with his new book, "American Oracle," on Nov. 4, 2011, at Historic Tredegar. Blight gave the keynote address during the first Founder's Day Dinner, which celebrated the Center's fifth anniversary.
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