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2 days ago · 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;
5 days ago · In The Dragon From Chicago, Pamela D. Toler draws on extensive archival research to unearth the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through the Nazi rise to power and Allied air raids over Berlin in 1941.
5 days ago · This reader contains key primary texts by Enlightenment thinkers including Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Thomas Jefferson.
- Bethan Davies
- 2010
4 days ago · The project was led by David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and published its findings in 2024.
4 days ago · • March 18, 5:30 p.m.: "Memory and the Meaning of Emancipation," a public lecture and book signing by historian David W. Blight, author of the award-winning book "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory."
1 day ago · In 2022, historian David W. Blight argued that the year 1857 was, "the great pivot on the road to disunion...largely because of the Dred Scott case, which stoked the fear, distrust and conspiratorial hatred already common in both the North and the South to new levels of intensity."
4 days ago · Pulitzer Prize, any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.
