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David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and
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, and a leading authority on
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and abolition in the Western world. He was a
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at
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, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Davis authored or edited 17 books. His books emphasize religious and ideological links among material conditions, political interests, and new political values. Ideology, in his view, is not a deliberate distortion of reality or a façade for material interests; rather, it is the conceptual lens through which groups of people perceive the world around them. He was also a frequent contributor to ''
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''. Davis received the 1967
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, and the
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, presented by President
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in 2014 for "reshaping our understanding of history". He also received the 2015
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for lifetime achievement in contributions to public understanding of racism and appreciation of cultural diversity, and the 2015 Biennial Coif Book Award, a top honor from the
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for the leading law-related book published in 2013 and 2014. After serving on the
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faculty for 14 years, Davis taught at Yale from 1970 to 2001. He held one-year appointments as the
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year. The Harmsworth Professorship was established by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–194 ...
at
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(1969–1970), at the
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at Stanford University, and as the first
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Chair in American Civilization at the ''
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'' in Paris.


Early life

Born in
Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
in 1927, the son of Clyde Brion Davis, a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, and Martha Elizabeth (Wirt) Davis, an artist and writer, Davis lived a peripatetic childhood in California, Colorado, New York, Colorado, and Washington State. He attended five high schools in four years but was popular among his peers.Richard Wightman Fox, "David Brion Davis: A Biographical Appreciation," ''Moral Problems in American Life,'' ed. Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry (Ithaca:
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, 1998)
During World War II, Davis was drafted into the
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in June 1945. On the troop ship to France in fall 1945, he witnessed the segregation and mistreatment of black soldiers. He was assigned to the
occupation of Germany Germany was already de facto occupied by the Allies from the real fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 October 1949. The Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Franc ...
in 1945–46. Since he knew some German, Davis was assigned to police civilians. Davis, whose parents "both rebelled against their Christian upbringing", did not identify with any religion until he married Toni Hahn Davis, who is Jewish. In 1987, Davis began his conversion to Judaism and had a Bar Mitzvah in 2008.


Work

In an essay in the 1968 ''
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'' entitled "Some Recent Directions in American Cultural History", Davis urged historians to devote more attention to the cultural dimension to enhance understanding of social controversies, political decision-making, and literary expression. At a time when social history was ascendant, and cultural history was associated with the study of the arts, taste, and popular culture, and intellectual history with the study of abstract ideas largely divorced from specific social contexts, he called for a history that focused on beliefs, values, fears, aspirations, and emotions. ''Antebellum American Culture'' (1979), his panoramic look at the cultural discourse surrounding ethnicity, gender, family, race, science, and wealth and power in the pre-Civil War United States, advanced the argument that American culture needs to be understood in terms of an ongoing "moral civil war". Diverse groups of Americans debated "what was happening, who was doing what to whom, what to fear and what to fight for." He suggests that a relatively small group of Northeastern writers, preachers, and reformers in the 19th century United States ultimately succeeded in defining a set of middle-class norms regarding education, taste, sex roles, sensibility, and moral respectability.


Study of slavery

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historian
Ira Berlin Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as ''Many Thousands Gone: ...
wrote that "no scholar has played a larger role in expanding contemporary understanding of how slavery shaped the history of the United States, the Americas, and the world than David Brion Davis." In a series of landmark books, articles, and lectures, Davis moved beyond a view of slavery that focuses on the institution in individual nations to look at the "big picture", the multinational view of the origins, development, and abolition of New World slavery. The most important of his books is his trilogy on the history of slavery in the Western world, which revealed the centrality of slavery in American and Atlantic history. The trilogy consisted of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture'' (1966), ''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823'' (1975), and ''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation'', (2014). He was committed to a conception of culture as process—a process involving conflict, resistance, invention, accommodation, appropriation, and, above all, power, including the power of ideas. Culture, in his view, involves a cacophony of voices but also social relations that involve hierarchy, exploitation, and resistance.


Students

Davis taught more than a generation of students, and advised many doctoral students, including such future prize-winning historians as Edward Ayers, Karen Halttunen, T. J. Jackson Lears, Steven Mintz,
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, Joan Shelley Rubin,
Jonathan Sarna Jonathan D. Sarna (born 10 January 1955) is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and director othe Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis Universit ...
, Barbara Savage,
Amy Dru Stanley Amy Dru Stanley is an American historian. Biography She graduated from Princeton University and from Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at the University of California, Irvine. She teaches at the University of Chicago. She studies America ...
, Christine Stansell, John Stauffer,
Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz (; born February 20, 1951) is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the ...
, and
Roy Lubove Roy Lubove (September 3, 1934 – February 17, 1995) was an American social historian. He was professor of social welfare and history at the University of Pittsburgh and was the author of a number of social histories. Biography Lubove was born in ...
. Davis's students have honored him with two ''
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s,'' ''Moral Problems in American Life'' (1998), edited by Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry, and ''The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of Reform'' (2007), edited by Steven Mintz and John Stauffer.


Career summary


Appointments

*Instructor,
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, 1953-1954 *Assistant Professor,
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, 1955-1958 *Associate Professor,
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, 1958-1963 *Ernest I. White Professor of History,
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, 1963-1969 *Farnam Professor of History,
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, 1969-1978 *Sterling Professor of History,
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, 1978-2001 *Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition,
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, 1998-2004


Awards

*Anisfield-Wolf Award, 1967 *
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, 1967 (''The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture'')"General Nonfiction"
''Past winners and finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
*Mass Media Award, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1967 *
American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...
Albert J. Beveridge Award, 1975 *
Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
, 1976 *
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in History and Biography, 1976 (''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution'')"National Book Awards – 1976"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
*Presidential Medal,
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, 1991 *Society of American Historians
Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring in ...
Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2004 *Kidger Award for Improving the Teaching of History, 2004 *Association of American Publishers Best Book in History Award 2006 *
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Scholarly Achievement Award, 2007 *Connecticut Book Award for Nonfiction, 2007 * Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, 2007 *
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Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2009 *Association of American Publishers Excellence Award, 2010 *
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Phi Beta Kappa DeVane Teaching Award 2011 *
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, presented by President
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at the White House ceremony in 2014 *
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for Lifetime Achievement, 2015 *Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2015 *Biennial Coif Book Award, Association of American Law Schools, 2015 * 2016, Honorary Doctorate,
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(awarded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2016).


Fellowships

*
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, 1958-1959 *
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, 1972-1973 * Fulbright grantee, 1980 *
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fellow, 1983-1984 *Gilder-Lehrman Inaugural Fellow, 1996-1997


Honors

*Fulbright Senior Lecturer, American Studies Research Centre,
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, India, 1967 * Harmsworth Professor,
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, 1969-1970 *French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization,
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, 1980-1981 *Fulbright Lecturer,
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and University of the West Indies, 1974 *Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, 1977 *Honorary Degree, University of New Haven, 1986 *President, Organization of American Historians, 1988-1989 *Presidential Medal for Leadership and Achievement,
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, 1991 *Honorary Degree,
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, 1999 *Honorary Degree,
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, 2016 *Fellow,
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*Fellow,
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*Fellow,
American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...
*Fellow (corr.),
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Publications

*''Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values,'' Cornell University Press, 1957; paperback ed., 1968. *''
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture ''The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture'' is a nonfiction book written by David Brion Davis, originally published by Cornell University Press in 1966, then republished in 1988 by Oxford University Press. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Gen ...
,'' Cornell University Press, 1966. 1967
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. History Book Club selection, 1967, paperback ed., 1969; Penguin British ed., 1970; Spanish and Italian translations; Oxford University Press, revised ed., 1988. A new Spanish edition appeared in 1996 and a Brazilian Portuguese edition in 2001
online edition from ACLS E-Books
*''Ante-Bellum Reform'' (editor), Harper and Row, 1967. *''The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style,'' Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Paperback ed., 1982. *''Was Thomas Jefferson an Authentic Enemy of Slavery?'' (pamphlet), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. *''The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present''(editor). Cornell University Press, 1971; paperback ed., 1972. *''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823,'' Cornell University Press, 1975; paperback ed., 1976. History Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selections. Oxford University Press edition, with a new preface, 1999. *''The Great Republic,'' “Part III, Expanding the Republic, 1820-1860,” a two-volume textbook by Bernard Bailyn and five other historians; D.C. Heath, textbook, 1977. History Book Club selection, 1977. Second ed., wholly revised, 1981. Third ed., wholly revised, 1985. Fourth ed., wholly revised, 1992. *''Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Anthology,''Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Anthology, D.C. Heath, 1979; new edition, Pennsylvania State Press, 1997. *''Slavery and the Idea of Progress'' (address to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Religion, February 28, 1979
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*''The Emancipation Moment'' (pamphlet), Gettysburg College, 1984. *''Slavery and Human Progress,'' Oxford University Press, 1984. History Book Club alternate selection. Paperback ed., 1986. *''Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake'' (pamphlet), Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986. *''From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture,'' Oxford University Press, 1986. *''Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations,'' Harvard University Press, 1990. German translation, 1993. *Co-author, ''The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation,'' ed. Thomas Bender. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. *''The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil War,'' co-editor Steven Mintz, Oxford University Press, 1998. *''In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery,'' Yale University Press, 2001. *''Challenging The Boundaries Of Slavery,'' Harvard University Press, 2003. *'' Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World,'' Oxford University Press, 2006 *''The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation,'' Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. *''The Problem of Slavery. Introduction to Oxford Press' An Historical Guide to World Slavery'', ed. Drescher and Engerman
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References

*David Brion Davis
"American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective"
''Southern Spaces'', 4 February 2009.


Further reading

* Fox, Richard Wightman. "David Brion Davis: A Biographical Appreciation," in Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry, eds. ''Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History'' (Cornell U.P. 1999) pp 331–40 * Goodman, Bonnie K. "History Doyens: David Brion Davis
''HistoryMusings" (May 28, 2006)


External links

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David Brion Davis Papers (MS 1790).
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