Dr. David Blight Lecture at Linden Place

Dr. David W Blight a Sterling Professor of History, Yale University and Director of The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition gave a keynote speech at 3 pm on Sunday February 26, 2023.
“American history is a deep river. (Current events) remind us that history is never finished and we have to keep crossing over the river, with all the honesty and truth we can muster from the spirituals and the blues, from historical knowledge, and from our greatest storytellers and poets.”
In addition to discussing the importance of Frederick Douglass, Dr. Bligh talked about the crucial roles libraries, museums, historians and teachers have in presenting full, inclusive, honest and accurate histories.

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"History is the thing you can't resign from." Great, rambling talk.

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Excellent lecture. Learned a lot. Just a thought - Prof. Blight's comment about Teach for American type program at Yale - where the univ pays grads to teach 3 yrs in a public school. Idea is great, but a private institution paying a public school teacher's salary might be problematic. How about Yale pays the equivalent - $ X per year to help the student pay down their student loans - at least until we finally deal with the mockery that is our student loan system in this country.