![]() ![]() Read more about Zinn’s impact on students in the Our Favorite Teacher series and consider adding your story. The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series was created in 2008 by former Zinn student Alex H. David Blight gave the annual Merle Curti Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 26-28. Read the popular article “ The First Decoration Day,” a people’s history of Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina at the Zinn Education Project. His latest book is a full biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018, Simon and Schuster) has won numerous awards including the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History, 2018 Los Angeles Book Prize for Biography, and the 2019 Bancroft Prize for History.īlight is a frequent book reviewer and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. He is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder. : Free: View in iTunes: 3: Video 03 - A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology: Professor Blight lectures on southern slavery. The David Brion Davis lecture series was established in 2005 to honor Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, and the founder of the Gilder Lehrman Center, David Brion Davis, one of the worlds leading scholars of slavery and abolition in an international context. ![]() Blight is author of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.īlight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. Blight is a teacher, scholar and award-winning public historian. The lecture offers a survey of that manner in which commentators American, foreign, northern, and southern have sought to make sense of the nature of. Blight’s topic is “Frederick Douglass: Prose Poet of American Democracy.” The event took place at Tsai Performance Center. Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, delivered the fourth Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at Boston University on Monday, Dec.
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