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October 17, 2024
Join us on Thursday October 17th from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Michigan State University's Main Library Green Room (4th floor west wing) for an afternoon with Pulitzer award-winning author and College of Social Science alumnus, David W. Blight PhD. David will be signing books after the lecture, if you would like to purchase one ahead of time.
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He has worked on Frederick Douglass much of his professional life, and has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others. His lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era at Yale is on the internet at oyc.yale.edu/history/hst-119. Blight has always been a teacher first. At the beginning of his career, he spent seven years as a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. For more information on David, please visit his website davidwblight.com
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