![]() ![]() ![]() Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures. Now on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country’s political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale. He shows how four of America’s most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Professor David Blight, award-winning author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, now examines the Civil War’s centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight YaleCourses 27 videos 728,774 views Last updated on This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil. His lectures included: 'Childhood of 'Extremes' and 'Baltimore Dreams': Slave Youth' on October 26 ''By the Rivers of Babylon': Words, the Bible, and the Mid-Life Radical' on October 27 and ''Joys and Sorrows' at Cedar Hill: Old Age, Family, and Fame' on October 28. Blight, Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition. David Blight gave the annual Merle Curti Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 26-28. ![]() “Then and Now: Civil War memory in the Civil Rights Era and in the Obama Era,” by David W. ![]()
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