David Blight

About the artist

David W. Blight joined the department in January 2003 as professor of history. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.

Top songs

1. 01 - Introductions: Why Does the Civil War era have a hold on American Historical Imagination?
2. 02 - Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
3. 03 - A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
4. 04 - A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition movement
5. 05 - Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
6. 06 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
7. 08 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
8. 10 - The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
9. 07 - "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
10. 09 - John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?

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