He is one of the authors of the bestselling American history textbook for the college level, A People and a Nation (Houghton Mifflin). The edited volume, Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory, was published by Smithsonian Press in 2004 and is the companion book for the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.īlight is also a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and other newspapers, and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. 1797, NYU Press, 1997), the book of oratory and antislavery writings that Frederick Douglass discovered while a youth.
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Press, 1997) and Caleb Bingham, The Columbian Orator (orig. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Books, 1997) co-editor with Brooks Simpson, Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (Kent State Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Bedford Books, 1993) co-editor with Robert Gooding-Williams, W.E.B. Blight is the editor of and author of six books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Univ. Other published works include a book of essays, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002) and Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989). Blight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians, including the Merle Curti prizes for both intellectual and social history. In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.īlight is the author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, 2011) and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), this book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. 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.
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He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. Blight joined the faculty at Yale in January 2003. An example of this was when he was nominated for a Bafta for his design work on A Harlots Progress, which was based on Hogarth's prints, a drama set in the eighteenth century for Channel four in 2007.David W. The results are visually pleasing for both directors and psychologically satisfying for the performers. His experience spans various genres and periods and David has shown ability in research to ensure his designs are accurate and appropriate. We look forward to working with him again. He has an eye for detail, which adds authenticity to his work and he gets fantastic results. He is an intelligent, talented and passionate designer, who works extremely hard under tight deadlines.ĭavid worked closely with the cast across the shoots and they all sang his praises. Has vast experience of producing beautiful costume drawings and interpreting them with makers to turn them into reality. David has two costumes at the V&A theatre collection that he designed for Greek at the ENO.
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Trained as a theatre designer at Wimbledon college of Art and worked for many years designing plays, opera and ballet at The National Theatre, ENO, The Royal Opera House as well as smaller and regional theatres. An outstanding communicator who prides himself on his ability to get along with people, managing teams and aligning himself with production requirements. Allies creative artistic expression, originality with efficient control of budgets. A talented costume designer with excellent experience of working on high profile projects.