David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.
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Blight grew up in Flint, Michigan. The name Blight is of Cornish origin.[1] After getting his undergraduate degree, Blight taught in a public high school for seven years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985.
He is the director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. His primary focus is on the American Civil War and its aftermath.
Along with historians Eric Foner and Steven Hahn, Blight focuses his study on post-Civil War history. He also lectures for One Day University.
His lectures on the American Civil War are available free of charge via ITUNES U. The 27 lectures are entitled 'The Civil War and Reconstruction Era 1845-1877'.