David W Blight: 4 books
A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.
Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new...
Frederick Douglass
Prophet of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History**
*Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher Awards***
Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago...
Slavery and Public History
The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books,...
Race and Reunion
The Civil War in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.