![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He received his Master of Arts degree in American history from Michigan State in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the discipline from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985 with a dissertation titled Keeping Faith in Jubilee: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War. Blight taught at Flint Northern High School for seven years. He then attended Michigan State University where he played for the Michigan State Spartans baseball team and graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. He attended Flint Central High School, from which he graduated in 1967. Early life and education īlight was born on March 21, 1949, in Flint, Michigan, where he grew up in a mobile home park. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. ![]() Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. ![]()
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