Guest
Prof. David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center, and Class of 1954 Professor of American History

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Guest: Susan Hyde, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Subject: International election monitoring
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 Guest: Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies
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Episode: December 10, 2008

Professor Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of History at Yale University, is the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center.  He has written numerous books on race and American history, and lectures widely on Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and problems in public history and American historical memory.  Today we talk with Professor Blight about his newest book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.

Learn more about Professor Blight