David Blight

David Blight is a prominent American historian specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Frederick Douglass. He serves as the director of the Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University and recently led a major project examining Yale's historical connections to slavery, producing a significant narrative history that emphasizes the university's complex past.

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United Kingdom: David Blight expressed his appalled reaction to Trump's executive order regarding the Smithsonian. 3

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The Guardian: ‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history | Trump administration

United Kingdom: David Blight is a Yale historian who won a Pulitzer prize for his biography of Frederick Douglass and led the Yale and Slavery Project. 9

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The Guardian: ‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery | History books