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Race and Reunion

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David W. Blight is Class of 1959 Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989), an intellectual biography that probes the meaning of the war in Douglass's life and thought. Blight has also written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. His new book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 1863-1915, was published by Harvard University Press in January, 2001. As of the 2000 edition, he is one of the authors of the best-selling American history textbook for the college level, A People and a Nation (Houghton Mifflin). Click here for more titles authored by or edited by David Blight.

Blight lectures widely on Douglass, Du Bois, and problems in American historical memory. He has also been a consultant to several documentary films, including the 1998 PBS series, "Africans in America." Blight has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has also taught at Harvard University, at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and for seven years was a public high school teacher in his hometown, Flint, Michigan. He was also senior Fulbright Professor in American Studies at the University of Munich in Germany in 1992-93.