--- title: "3 David W. Blight Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "American historian... | David William Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and director of ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b069/author-david-w-blight-85668.jpg" --- ![Portrait of David W. Blight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b069/author-david-w-blight-85668.jpg) # David W. Blight (1949) Historian **3** quotes in **52** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet David W. Blight is a historian. ## Quick Facts About David W. Blight Born March 21, 1949 Profession Historian ## About David W. Blight American historian... \| David William Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of history at Amherst College, where he ## Quotes by David W. Blight > [“All memory is prelude.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-w-blight/all-memory-is-prelude/) David W. Blight [Memory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memory/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/david-w-blight-85668_memory_all-memory-is-prelude-126823_126823.png) > [The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-w-blight/the-incomparable-james-walvin-has-done-it-again-he-has-crafted-a/) David W. Blight [Analysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analysis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/david-w-blight-85668_analysis_the-incomparable-james-walvin-has-done-i_792763.png) > [ This was the first Memorial Day \[Monday, May 1st, 1865\]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-w-blight/this-was-the-first-memorial-day-monday-may-1st-1865-african-americans/) David W. Blight [African american](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-american/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/david-w-blight-85668_african-american_this-was-the-first-memorial-day-monday-m_3134052.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-w-blight/#itemlist", "name": "David W. Blight Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“All memory is prelude.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David W. 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