David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, AHA member, and former AHA councilor, was awarded the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for his book Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. This annual award honors a work that enhances the general public's understanding of the Civil War era, and the prize committee praised Blight for "the most comprehensive and multi-dimensional biography of Frederick Douglass ever written."