David Blight

David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History at Yale, and the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. He worked closely with an advisory team for the curators of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and conducted institutes for American secondary teachers at the Museum as it opened. He has written widely about historical memory in American life.