David W. Blight

Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 253 copies, 6 reviews
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their own… 152 copies, 5 reviews
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory 35 copies
Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee 33 copies
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War 19 copies
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 17 copies, 1 review
The Columbian Orator 5 copies
A People and a Nation (International Edition) 2 copies
Union & Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era 2 copies
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: A Relationship in Language,… 2 copies
"Hope is the First Great Blessing": Leaves from the African Free School… 1 copy
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1 copy
Race and Reunion 1 copy

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Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Foreword) 38 copies
William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory (Contributor) 1 copy

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Flint, Michigan, USA

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Yale University

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University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. ∙ 1985)

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film consultant

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Society of American Historians

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition (Director)

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Ellis W. Hawley Prize

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