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Blight at the 2019 National Book Festival</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">David William Blight</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1949-03-21</span>) </span>March 21, 1949<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 75)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Flint,_Michigan" title="Flint, Michigan">Flint</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Karin B. H. 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(2019)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_University" title="Michigan State University">Michigan State University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> <a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Keeping Faith in Jubilee</i> (1985)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_studies" title="American studies">American studies</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sub-discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/American_history" class="mw-redirect" title="American history">American history</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Central_College" title="North Central College">North Central College</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Race_and_Reunion" title="Race and Reunion">Race and Reunion</a></i> (2001)</li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass:_Prophet_of_Freedom" title="Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom">Frederick Douglass</a></i> (2018)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://davidwblight.com">davidwblight<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5240690#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David William Blight</b> (born 1949) is the <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Professor" title="Sterling Professor">Sterling Professor</a> of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the <a href="/wiki/Gilder_Lehrman_Center_for_the_Study_of_Slavery,_Resistance,_and_Abolition" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition">Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition</a> at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a>, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the <a href="/wiki/Bancroft_Prize" title="Bancroft Prize">Bancroft Prize</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Douglass Prize">Frederick Douglass Prize</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Race_and_Reunion" title="Race and Reunion">Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory</a></i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Prize" title="Lincoln Prize">Lincoln Prize</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass:_Prophet_of_Freedom" title="Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom">Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</a></i>. In 2021, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blight was born on March 21, 1949, in <a href="/wiki/Flint,_Michigan" title="Flint, Michigan">Flint</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, where he grew up in a <a href="/wiki/Mobile_home" title="Mobile home">mobile home</a> park. He attended <a href="/wiki/Flint_Central_High_School" title="Flint Central High School">Flint Central High School</a>, from which he graduated in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-mynorth_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mynorth-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He then attended <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_University" title="Michigan State University">Michigan State University</a> where he played for the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_Spartans_baseball" title="Michigan State Spartans baseball">Michigan State Spartans baseball team</a> and graduated in 1971 with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in history. Blight taught at <a href="/wiki/Flint_Northern_High_School" title="Flint Northern High School">Flint Northern High School</a> for seven years. He received his <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">Master of Arts</a> degree in <a href="/wiki/American_history" class="mw-redirect" title="American history">American history</a> from Michigan State in 1976 and a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Doctor of Philosophy</a> degree in the discipline from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> in 1985 with a dissertation titled <i>Keeping Faith in Jubilee: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following stints at <a href="/wiki/North_Central_College" title="North Central College">North Central College</a> (1982–1987) and <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (1987–1989), Blight taught at <a href="/wiki/Amherst_College" title="Amherst College">Amherst College</a> from 1990 to 2003. In 2001, he published <i><a href="/wiki/Race_and_Reunion" title="Race and Reunion">Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory</a></i>. It "presented a new way of understanding the nation's collective response to the war, arguing that, in the interest of reunification, the country ignored the racist underpinnings of the war, leaving a legacy of racial conflict."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book earned Blight both the <a href="/wiki/Bancroft_Prize" title="Bancroft Prize">Bancroft Prize</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Douglass Prize">Frederick Douglass Prize</a>. </p><p>After being hired by Yale in 2003 and teaching as a full professor, in 2006 Blight was selected to direct the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. His primary focus is on the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> and how American society grappled with the war in its aftermath. His 2007 book <i>A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation</i> context for newly discovered first-person accounts by two African-American slaves who escaped during the Civil War and emancipated themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also lectures for <a href="/wiki/One_Day_University" title="One Day University">One Day University</a>. In Spring 2008, Blight recorded a 27-lecture course, <i>The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877</i> for <a href="/wiki/Open_Yale_Courses" title="Open Yale Courses">Open Yale Courses</a>, which is available online. </p><p>Blight wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass:_Prophet_of_Freedom" title="Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom">Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</a></i>, released in 2018, as the first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades. One reviewer called it "<i>the</i> definitive biography of Frederick Douglass" and another heralded the book as "the new Frederick Douglass standard-bearer for years to come."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It earned the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> in history and the 2019 Gilder Lehrman <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Prize" title="Lincoln Prize">Lincoln Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Contributing to the anthology <i>Our American Story</i> (2019), Blight addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative. He cited Frederick Douglass's 1867 speech titled "Composite Nation" calling for a "multi-ethnic, multi-racial 'nation' ... incorporated into this new vision of a 'composite' nationality, <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" title="Separation of church and state in the United States">separating church and state</a>, giving allegiance to a single new constitution, federalizing the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a>, and spreading liberty more broadly than any civilization had ever attempted". Blight concluded that although the search for a new unified American story would be difficult, "we must try".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2020, Blight was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter", published in <i>Harper's Magazine</i> and titled "<a href="/wiki/A_Letter_on_Justice_and_Open_Debate" title="A Letter on Justice and Open Debate">A Letter on Justice and Open Debate</a>", which expressed concern that "The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2001 <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Douglass Prize">Frederick Douglass Prize</a> for <i>Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-HUP_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HUP-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2002 <a href="/wiki/Bancroft_Prize" title="Bancroft Prize">Bancroft Prize</a>; co-winner, <a href="/wiki/James_A._Rawley_Prize_(OAH)" title="James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)">James A. Rawley Prize</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_Historians" title="Organization of American Historians">Organization of American Historians</a>; 2002 <a href="/wiki/Ellis_W._Hawley_Prize" title="Ellis W. Hawley Prize">Ellis W. Hawley Prize</a>, Organization of American Historians; <a href="/wiki/Merle_Curti_Award" title="Merle Curti Award">Merle Curti Award</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Prize" title="Lincoln Prize">Lincoln Prize</a> for <i>Race and Reunion</i><sup id="cite_ref-HUP_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HUP-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008 Connecticut Book Prize for <i>A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation</i></li> <li>2012 <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Prize</a> for <i>American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era</i><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2018 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow, honor bestowed by the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Historical_Society" title="Georgia Historical Society">Georgia Historical Society</a>.</li> <li>2018 The Lincoln Forum's <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nelson_Current" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Nelson Current">Richard Nelson Current</a> Award of Achievement<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2019 Gilder Lehrman <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Prize" title="Lincoln Prize">Lincoln Prize</a> for <i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i></li> <li>2019 New England Book Awards for <i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2019 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_History" title="Pulitzer Prize for History">Pulitzer Prize for History</a> for <i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i></li> <li>2019 <a href="/wiki/PEN_Oakland_awards" title="PEN Oakland awards">PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award</a> for <i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i></li> <li>2020 <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Gold_Medals#History" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals">American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in History</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2022 <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement's</a> Golden Plate Award<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_as_author">Books as author</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Books as author"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight1989" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (1989). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/frederickdouglas00blig"><i>Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee</i></a></span>. LSU Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8071-1724-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8071-1724-8"><bdi>978-0-8071-1724-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Frederick+Douglass%27+Civil+War%3A+Keeping+Faith+in+Jubilee&rft.pub=LSU+Press&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=978-0-8071-1724-8&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffrederickdouglas00blig&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2001" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2001). <a href="/wiki/Race_and_Reunion" title="Race and Reunion"><i>Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory</i></a>. Harvard University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-00819-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-00819-9"><bdi>978-0-674-00819-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Race+and+Reunion%3A+The+Civil+War+in+American+Memory&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-674-00819-9&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2002" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2002). <i>Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War</i>. University of Massachusetts Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55849-361-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55849-361-2"><bdi>978-1-55849-361-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+the+Battlefield%3A+Race%2C+Memory%2C+and+the+American+Civil+War&rft.pub=University+of+Massachusetts+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-55849-361-2&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2007" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2007). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/slavenomoretwome00blig"><i>A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation</i></a></span>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-15-101232-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-15-101232-9"><bdi>978-0-15-101232-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Slave+No+More%3A+Two+Men+Who+Escaped+to+Freedom%2C+Including+Their+Own+Narratives+of+Emancipation&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-15-101232-9&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fslavenomoretwome00blig&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2011" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2011). <i>American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era</i>. Belknap Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-67-404855-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-67-404855-3"><bdi>978-0-67-404855-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Oracle%3A+The+Civil+War+in+the+Civil+Rights+Era&rft.pub=Belknap+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-67-404855-3&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2018" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2018). <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass:_Prophet_of_Freedom" title="Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"><i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i></a>. Simon & Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-9031-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-9031-6"><bdi>978-1-4165-9031-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Frederick+Douglass%3A+Prophet+of+Freedom&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-1-4165-9031-6&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_W._Blight2024" class="citation book cs1">David W. Blight (2024). <i>Yale and Slavery: A History</i>. Yale University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780300273847" title="Special:BookSources/9780300273847"><bdi>9780300273847</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Yale+and+Slavery%3A+A+History&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2024&rft.isbn=9780300273847&rft.au=David+W.+Blight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_as_contributor">Books as contributor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Books as contributor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrederick_Douglass1993" class="citation book cs1">Frederick Douglass (1993). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/narrativeoflife100doug"><i>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave</i></a></span>. Introduction David W. Blight. Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Narrative+of+the+Life+of+Frederick+Douglass%2C+an+American+Slave&rft.pub=Bedford+Books+of+St.+Martin%27s+Press&rft.date=1993&rft.au=Frederick+Douglass&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnarrativeoflife100doug&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>"They Knew What Time It Was: African-Americans and the Coming of the Civil War". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGabor_Boritt1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gabor_Boritt" title="Gabor Boritt">Gabor Boritt</a>, ed. (1996). <i>Why the Civil War Came</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-507941-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-507941-8"><bdi>0-19-507941-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Why+the+Civil+War+Came&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-19-507941-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>"The Theft of Lincoln in Scholarship, Politics, and Public Memory". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEric_Foner2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Foner" title="Eric Foner">Eric Foner</a>, ed. (2008). <i>Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World</i>. W. W. Norton & Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06756-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06756-9"><bdi>978-0-393-06756-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Our+Lincoln%3A+New+Perspectives+on+Lincoln+and+His+World&rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton+%26+Company&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-393-06756-9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Blight, David W., ed. <i>When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster</i>. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2009.</li> <li>"Cup of Wrath and Fire". <a href="/wiki/Edward_L._Widmer" title="Edward L. Widmer">Ted Widmer</a>, ed. (2016). <i>The New York Times DISUNION: A History of the Civil War</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 10-13.</li> <li>"Hating and Loving the 'Real' Abe Lincolns: Lincoln and the American South" (2011). <a href="/wiki/Richard_Carwardine" title="Richard Carwardine">Richard Carwardine</a> and Jay Sexton, eds., <i>The Global Lincoln</i>. New York: Oxford University Press.</li> <li>"Introduction" (co-authored with <a href="/wiki/Gregory_P._Downs" class="mw-redirect" title="Gregory P. Downs">Gregory P. Downs</a> and Jim Downs). David W. Blight and Jim Downs, eds. (2017). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation</i>. University of Georgia Press. 2017. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780820351483" title="Special:BookSources/9780820351483"><bdi>9780820351483</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+Freedom%3A+Disrupting+the+History+of+Emancipation&rft.pub=University+of+Georgia+Press&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9780820351483&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>"Composite Nation?", <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoshua_Claybourn2019" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Claybourn" title="Joshua Claybourn">Joshua Claybourn</a>, ed. (2019). <i>Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative</i>. Potomac Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1640121706" title="Special:BookSources/978-1640121706"><bdi>978-1640121706</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Our+American+Story%3A+The+Search+for+a+Shared+National+Narrative&rft.pub=Potomac+Books&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-1640121706&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>"Foreword: From Every Point of the Compass out of the Countless Graves". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrian_Matthew_JordanJonathan_W._White2023" class="citation book cs1">Brian Matthew Jordan; Jonathan W. White, eds. (2023). <i>Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves</i>. The University of Georgia Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780820364551" title="Special:BookSources/9780820364551"><bdi>9780820364551</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Final+Resting+Places%3A+Reflections+on+the+Meaning+of+Civil+War+Graves&rft.pub=The+University+of+Georgia+Press&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=9780820364551&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_W._Blight&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2021">"The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+American+Philosophical+Society+Welcomes+New+Members+for+2021&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amphilsoc.org%2Fblog%2Famerican-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2021&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mynorth-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mynorth_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor2020" class="citation news cs1">Taylor, Jordee (30 June 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mynorth.com/2020/06/pulitzer-winning-biographer-david-blight-at-national-writers-series/">"Pulitzer-Winning Biographer David Blight at National Writers Series"</a>. <i>Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine</i>. MyNorth Media<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 September</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Traverse%2C+Northern+Michigan%E2%80%99s+Magazine&rft.atitle=Pulitzer-Winning+Biographer+David+Blight+at+National+Writers+Series&rft.date=2020-06-30&rft.aulast=Taylor&rft.aufirst=Jordee&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmynorth.com%2F2020%2F06%2Fpulitzer-winning-biographer-david-blight-at-national-writers-series%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David W. Blight. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/303382685/previewPDF/">Keeping Faith in Jubilee: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/blight_d.html">"David W. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.courttv.com/chat/transcripts/2007/1114slavenarratives-blight.html">the original</a> on 23 November 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 December</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Court+TV&rft.atitle=Historian+David+Blight+on+two+newly+published+slave+narratives&rft.date=2007-11-14&rft.au=Chat+Transcript&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.courttv.com%2Fchat%2Ftranscripts%2F2007%2F1114slavenarratives-blight.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+W.+Blight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080127150618/http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/blight_d.html">Yale History Faculty: David W. Blight</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.yale.edu/2004/06/09/historian-david-blight-direct-gilder-lehrman-center-yale">"Historian David Blight to Direct the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale"</a>, Yale, 6 April 2009</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://glc.yale.edu/">The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition</a>, Yale University</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction/">Online Videos: David W. Blight, <i>The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121005073338/http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction/">Archived</a> 2012-10-05 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Open_Yale_Courses" title="Open Yale Courses">Open Yale Courses</a>, 27 lectures, recorded Spring 2008, Yale University. Available free of charge via iTunes U.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_C._Alexander" title="Jeffrey C. Alexander">Jeffrey C. Alexander</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Pitt_Professor_of_American_History_and_Institutions" title="Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions">Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions</a> </b><br />2012–2013 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Eichengreen" title="Barry Eichengreen">Barry Eichengreen</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid lightgreen">Non-profit organization positions </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Nelson_Limerick" title="Patricia Nelson Limerick">Patricia Nelson Limerick</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> President of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_American_Historians" title="Society of American Historians">Society of American Historians</a> </b><br />2013–2014 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/David_Nasaw" title="David Nasaw">David Nasaw</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFF179;">Awards </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="2">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Eltis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Eltis (page does not exist)">David Eltis</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2"><b> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Douglass Prize">Frederick Douglass Prize</a> </b><br />2001 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_W._Harms" title="Robert W. Harms">Robert W. Harms</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Stauffer_(professor)" title="John Stauffer (professor)">John Stauffer</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Michael_A._Bellesiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael A. Bellesiles">Michael A. Bellesiles</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="3"><b> <a href="/wiki/Bancroft_Prize" title="Bancroft Prize">Bancroft Prize</a> </b><br />2002 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/Alice_Kessler-Harris" title="Alice Kessler-Harris">Alice Kessler-Harris</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/James_F._Brooks" title="James F. Brooks">James F. Brooks</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Lee_Johnson" title="Susan Lee Johnson">Susan Lee Johnson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Gallay" title="Alan Gallay">Alan Gallay</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/David_Nasaw" title="David Nasaw">David Nasaw</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="2">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sherry_L._Smith" title="Sherry L. Smith">Sherry L. Smith</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2"><b> <a href="/wiki/James_A._Rawley_Prize_(OAH)" title="James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)">James A. Rawley Prize</a> of the<br /><a href="/wiki/Organization_of_American_Historians" title="Organization of American Historians">Organization of American Historians</a> </b><br />2002 <br />With: <b> <a href="/w/index.php?title=J._William_Harris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. William Harris (page does not exist)">J. William Harris</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharla_M._Fett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sharla M. Fett (page does not exist)">Sharla M. Fett</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shane_White_(historian)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shane White (historian) (page does not exist)">Shane White</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Russell_Weigley" title="Russell Weigley">Russell Weigley</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Prize" title="Lincoln Prize">Lincoln Prize</a> </b><br />2002 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Rable" title="George C. Rable">George C. Rable</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Eltis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Eltis (page does not exist)">David Eltis</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Richardson_(historian)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Richardson (historian) (page does not exist)">David Richardson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2"><b> <a href="/wiki/Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award" title="Anisfield-Wolf Book Award">Anisfield-Wolf Book Award</a> for Nonfiction </b><br />2012 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/David_Livingstone_Smith" title="David Livingstone Smith">David Livingstone Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="2">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Solomon" title="Andrew Solomon">Andrew Solomon</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Isabel_Wilkerson" title="Isabel Wilkerson">Isabel Wilkerson</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Edward_L._Ayers" title="Edward L. 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