David W. Blight

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David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight grew up in Flint, Michigan, where he taught in a public high school for seven years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1985, and is currently the director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. His primary focus in on the American Civil War and its aftermath. He has written several books including Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001). == References ==

• Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
• Yale History Faculty: David W. Blight
• Historian David Blight to Direct the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale
• The Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition