Published to critical acclaim in 2001, his seminal “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” garnered many of the top awards bestowed on American historians. Blight’s first major book, “Frederick Douglass’s Civil War” (1989), helped to establish his reputation as an outstanding authority of the period. He has earned a multitude of honors and awards for his work examining how the nation’s “peculiar institution” and its bloodiest war to end it shaped the country’s history and identity.
The Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Blight joined the Yale faculty in 2002. “The center’s research efforts and its work to foster wider understanding of slavery issues will both be furthered under his leadership.” “Yale is delighted that Professor Blight will be bringing his prize-winning scholarship and energy to the mission of the Gilder-Lehrman Center,” Levin said. Blight, a preeminent scholar of the history and legacy of the American Civil War, as director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.īlight succeeds David Brion Davis, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, who has been director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center since it was established six years ago. Levin has announced the appointment of Professor David W.
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