with Jim Downs) "Introduction" (co-authored with Gregory P. Downs and Jim Downs), (Contributor) "Composite Nation?", References External links Yale History Faculty: David W. Blight "Historian David Blight to Direct the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale", Yale, 6 April 2009 The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University Online Videos: David W. Blight, The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 , Open Yale Courses, 27 lectures, recorded Spring 2008, Yale University. Available free of charge via iTunes U. 1949 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Writers from Flint, Michigan University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Amherst College faculty Flint Central High School alumni Historians of the American Civil War Lincoln Prize winners Yale University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Historians of slavery Yale Sterling Professors Bancroft Prize winners Members of the American Philosophical Society Historians from Michigan American male non-fiction writers