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31 de ene. de 2024 · In this podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight of Yale University talks with Stan about his latest book, Yale and Slavery: A History, and how he and a team of researchers uncovered Yale’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and Jim Crow—and the important role that slavery played in the creation of one...
Hace 3 días · Some historians, including Yale’s David W. Blight, argue that African Americans invented Memorial Day in the spring of 1865 in Charleston, S.C., when they reinterred the bodies of Union ...
Hace 3 días · Award-winning historian David W. Blight discovered the information while going through Howard University’s archive in 1996. According to a New York Tribune article he found, freed Black...
6 de may. de 2024 · A blog by Stan Deaton | Podcast S7E11: David Blight on Yale and Slavery, History and Memory. How do we hold institutions accountable for the sins of the past?
Hace 3 días · “Charleston forgot this story because it did not fit” the emerging narrative in the defeated South, David W. Blight, a historian at Yale University, said.
Hace 2 días · Historian David W. Blight identified three visions of the social implications of Reconstruction: [page needed] the reconciliationist vision, which focused on coping with the death and devastation the war had brought;
12 de may. de 2024 · 2009-01-15 David W. Blight The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War.
