David W. Blight

David William Blight is the Sterling professor of history, African American studies, and American studies at Yale University, where he is also the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. He has won several awards for his books, including the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for “Race and Reunion,” and the Pulitzer Prize and the Lincoln Prize for “Frederick Douglass.”