Blight, David W

LC control no.	n 88006075
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Blight, David W. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1949-03-21
Field of activity	United States--History--Study and teaching (Higher)
Affiliation	Yale University Amherst College Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition University of Cambridge Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery New York Public Library. Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars
Profession or occupation	Authors College teachers Historians History teachers
Found in	His Keeping faith in jubilee, 1985: t.p. (David W. Blight) His Frederick Douglass' Civil War, c1989: CIP t.p. (David W. Blight) data sheet (b. 3/21/49) Yale University website, October 25, 2018: (David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College; As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library) <https://history.yale.edu/people/david-blight>
Associated language	eng