In the wake of the 2020 election and the moral and philosophical fragmentations that it has reaffirmed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David W. Blight, in conversation with Lewis H. Lapham, talks about the spirit and history of democracy. 

 

This virtual event was recorded December 11, 2020. Watch the program here.

 

The event launched Democracy, the new issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.

 

David W. Blight is the director of Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a professor of American history.

 

The New-York Historical Society and Lapham’s Quarterly are grateful for the Knight Foundation’s generous support in sponsoring this program.

 

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