Photo: Courtesy of Huntington Library, San Marino, California. On November 18, Blight will give Salem Athenaeum’s Adams Lecture at Tabernacle Congregational Church in the Witch City.
It wasn’t until nine years later – in 1985 – that the University of Wisconsin-Madison would bestow a PhD on him.
During his seven years of doing so in his hometown of Flint, he earned his master’s “one course at a time” via evening classes at MSU. Having become enchanted with the Civil War in his teens by the books of fellow Wolverine State native Bruce Catton, Blight graduated from Michigan State University with the intent of teaching high school-level history. As he stated later in the interview, “I had won something like eight awards for my book Race and Reunion back in 2002.” Moreover, the fact that he won a Connecticut Book Award in 2008 and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2012 never came up.īlight’s path to professorships at Harvard, Amherst, and Yale did not lead him through the rarefied air of similarly vaunted institutes of higher learning. Perhaps this was Blight’s Midwestern modesty at work. “You’re just sort of delighted to get the book finished!” Blight from his office at Yale University about having won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History along with seven other awards for his volume Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. You don’t expect book awards,” said historian David W.
It’s like reading Emerson or even Shakespeare.” “You can read Frederick Douglass forever and still just encounter new things, new ideas, new passages, new phrases.
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