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David Brion Davis

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American historian (1927-2019)

United StatesWritersLived 1927 to 2019 · aged 92
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David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

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2014National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
2013National Humanities Medal
2007Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
2004Bruce Catton Prize
1976National Book Award
1976Bancroft Prize
1975Albert J. Beveridge Award
1967Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1967Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Harvard Centennial Medal
Sterling Professor
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History

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Walter RodneyAlso won Albert J. Beveridge AwardIan ShapiroAlso won Sterling ProfessorDavid Levering LewisAlso won Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardFrances FitzGeraldAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionJohn Hope FranklinAlso won Bruce Catton PrizeEugene GenoveseAlso won Bancroft Prize

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David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He was a self-described "leftish Democrat."

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 92
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