Frederick Douglass at 200
Noted scholar and professor of history at Yale University, David Blight, Ph.D., will bring his expertise to discuss the importance of Frederick Douglass's life and thought as part of our recognition of Black History month at the Maryland Historical Society. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, is one of the most respected scholars of the Civil War and Reconstruction, race relations, Douglass, Du Bois, and problems in public history and American historical memory.