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ACLS Fellows in the News

Published: October 22, 2019

ACLS Fellow David W. Blight F’88 was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster). Blight is director of The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Read more at http://www.davidwblight.com. ACLS Fellow Fitzhugh Brundage F’95 was named a Finalist in the same category for his book, Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).