Dickson "Dave" Davies Bruce Jr. (April 11, 1946 – November 24, 2014) was a history professor and author in the United States whose research focused on cultural and intellectual history of African Americans. He taught at the

University of California at Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

. He received the James Mooney Award from the

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in 1973 for his book ''And They All Sang Hallelujah''. Bruce was born in Dallas and raised in

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. He received a bachelor's degree in from

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in 1967 and a doctorate from

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in 1971. He joined the faculty at UC Irvine in the same year and taught there for more than 35 years before retiring in 2008 as Professor of History. During his career, he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Program in Comparative Cultures.

Select writings

*''And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845'' (1974) *''The "John and Old Master" Stories and the World of Slavery: A Study in Folktales and History'' (1974) *''Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South'' (1979) *''The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829-30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South'' (1982) *''Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915'' (1989) *''Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent'' (1993) *''The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865'' (2001). *''The Kentucky Tragedy: A story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America'' (2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce, Dickson D. 1946 births 2014 deaths University of Pennsylvania alumni Historians of African Americans 21st-century American historians Writers from Dallas University of Texas at Austin alumni Historians from Texas University of California, Irvine faculty People from Lubbock, Texas 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers