A documentary titled “Death and the Civil War,” prominently featuring Yale historian David Blight, will air on PBS on Sept. 18, at 8 pm. Based on Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book “This Republic of ...

David Blight, a renowned historian whose new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, has been published to glowing reviews, will be in Rochester Dec. 3 and 4 for two engagements co-sponsored by ...

Yale historian David Blight says Americans like to think of themselves as "the country that freed the slaves," but prefer not to dwell on the... Historian Says '12 Years' Is A Story The Nation Must ...

It’s unusual for a college lecture course to begin with the students singing, and with feeling, the thrumming “Glory, glory, hallelujah” chorus for all five verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, ...

"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the ...

One of the recently vandalized monuments is a statue of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Someone smeared “BLM” and “(expletive) Slave Owners” on the seated figure prominently displayed in the city named ...