Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Tilson Auditorium - 7:00PM Free and open to the public David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at North Central College in Illinois, at Harvard University, and at Amherst College. In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his new biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which has won over seven book awards including the #PulitzerPrize in History, the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, the Bancroft Prize for #History, and the Francis Parkman Prize. Blight is featured in many documentary films on #Americanhistory on #PBS, the #BBC, and other networks. At the beginning of his career, he spent seven years as a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and did his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsi...