Speeches •
Historian and Yale Professor, David Blight spoke at the Cottage Conversation at President Lincoln's Cottage on October 27, 2011. We caught up with him to talk about his new book, "American Oracle
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David Blight of Yale University delivers the keynote address at the North Carolina Civil War 150th Symposium.
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David Blight, professor of American history at Yale University, speaks about the nature of Civil War memory in the border states by referencing moving passages in the work of Kentucky author and literary critic Robert Penn Warren.
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U.S. Civil War scholars from across the nation are speaking at Vanderbilt University this spring on a variety of themes, including the war’s impact on Nashville, during a series of public lectures.
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David Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, delivered the Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture March 24, 2011, at Vanderbilt University.
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David Blight is a professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, at Yale University. David Blight discusses 9/11, memorialization, and the American identity.
Read MoreThe 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.
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Roundtable 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).
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David 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 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 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.
David Blight, author of "When this Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster", talks about his book at Northampton's 350th anniversary lecture series at Smith College.
Read MoreOfficials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book of the year on the history of slavery. This year’s winner, David Blight, is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
Read MoreDr. Blight talked about his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, published by Harvard University Press. In his lecture, Mr. Blight explored the relationship between history and memory, and discusses the importance in establishing the difference between the two.
Read MoreHistory professors discussed the origins of the Civil War and a variety of other issues.
Read MoreMr. Blight was part of a Civil War Symposium hosted by the National Park Service. He spoke about the National Park Service’s role in interpreting and preserving facts about the Civil War.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?157013-1/civil-war-commemoration