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| Dr. David W. Blight |
On
May 11th at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center
in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. David W. Blight, Class of
’54 Professor of History at Yale University and
Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
gave a free lecture entitled Has Civil War Memory
Divided or United America? for Missouri and Kansas
history teachers. The talk, funded in part by the Kauffman
Foundation, was sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History.
The
lecture was followed by a question and answer period and
refreshments. All attendees received a booklet of primary
sources on slavery
and the Civil War from the Gilder Lehrman
Collection.
Blight
is the author of Race and Reunion: The
Civil War in American Memory, for which he won
the 2001 Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the
2002 Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes. Before his university
career, Blight taught for seven years in
a public high school in his hometown of Flint, Michigan.
He was recently a featured historian on
The History Channel’s series Ten Days that
Unexpectedly Changed America.
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