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David W. Blight

デイヴィッド・ダブリュー・ブライト

David W. Blight

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1949-03-21 （Flint, Michigan, USA）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Flint, Michigan, USA (childhood) → Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (teaching) → New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Yale University)

経歴

職業
Historian, Professor, Author
活動期間
1971年〜
所属
North Central College (faculty), Harvard University (faculty), Amherst College (faculty), Yale University (faculty; Director, Gilder Lehrman Center)
所属団体
American Philosophical Society (elected 2021), Society of American Historians (former president)
影響を受けた人物
Frederick Douglass (subject of study/influence), Eric Foner (influence in American history scholarship)

学歴

Michigan State University
History
学位: BA
期間: 1967–1971
卒業年: 1971
国: United States
Bachelor of Arts in History. Played on the Michigan State Spartans baseball team.
Michigan State University
History
学位: MA
期間: 1971–1976
卒業年: 1976
国: United States
Master of Arts in American History.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
History
学位: PhD
期間: 1976–1985
卒業年: 1985
国: United States
PhD in American History. Dissertation: Keeping Faith in Jubilee: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War.

受賞歴

Frederick Douglass Prize
2001
対象作品: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
主催: Frederick Douglass Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
Bancroft Prize
2002
対象作品: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
主催: Columbia University Bancroft Prize Committee
結果: 受賞（共同受賞あり）
Lincoln Prize
2002
対象作品: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
主催: Gilder Lehrman Institute (Lincoln Prize)
結果: 受賞
Connecticut Book Prize
2008
対象作品: A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
主催: Connecticut Center for the Book
結果: 受賞
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2012
対象作品: American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
主催: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Committee
結果: 受賞
Lincoln Prize
2019
対象作品: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
主催: Gilder Lehrman Institute (Lincoln Prize)
結果: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize for History
2019
対象作品: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
主催: Pulitzer Prize Committee
結果: 受賞
PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award
2019
対象作品: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
主催: PEN Oakland
結果: 受賞
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in History
2020
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: 受賞
Golden Plate Award
2022
主催: American Academy of Achievement
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

1989年 History (biography / memory of war)

Study of Frederick Douglass and Civil War memory, examining Douglass's wartime experience and its significance.

SlaveryMemory studiesFrederick Douglass

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

2001年 History (memory studies)

Analyzes how American society remembered the Civil War and how, in the interest of reunification, racial issues were marginalized.

Memory and forgettingReunificationRace relations

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

2007年 History (primary sources / edited narratives)

Presents newly discovered first-person accounts of two escaped slaves, illuminating individual experiences of emancipation.

Personal slave historiesEmancipationPrimary sources

American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

2011年 History (connections to the Civil Rights Era)

Examines how Civil War memory influenced the Civil Rights Era and related debates in the 1960s.

Memory studiesCivil Rights MovementPolitics of history

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

2018年 Biography / History

A major modern biography of Frederick Douglass, drawing on extensive sources to portray his life and thought.

BiographySlavery and emancipationCivil rights

Yale and Slavery: A History

2024年 History (university history / slavery studies)

Investigates Yale University's historical connections to slavery based on archival research.

University historySlaveryArchival research

全著作

  • Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989)
  • Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001)
  • Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (2002)
  • A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom (2007)
  • American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (2011)
  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)
  • Yale and Slavery: A History (2024)

作風・主題

文体
Scholarly, narrative historical criticismExtensive use of primary sources
頻出モチーフ
Politics of memory and historyIndividual narratives of slavery and emancipationBiographical focus on Frederick Douglass

評価・遺産

Renowned historian of Civil War memory and slavery studies. Considered a leading authority on Frederick Douglass with broad recognition and major awards.

関連学会

  • American Philosophical Society
  • Society of American Historians

資料所蔵先

  • Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University (related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • Open Yale Courses lecture series (The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877) and appearances on C-SPAN

引用

  • We must try to seek a new unified American story.
    出典: Essay in Our American Story (contribution), 2019 (2019年)

豆知識

  • Played baseball for Michigan State University.
  • Grew up in a mobile home park in Flint, Michigan.
  • Recorded a 27-lecture Open Yale Courses series in 2008.