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David Brion Davis
American historian (1927-2019) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 92
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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2019Died14 April 20192014National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward2013National Humanities MedalAward2007Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardAward2004Bruce Catton PrizeAward1976Bancroft PrizeAwardNational Book AwardAward1975Albert J. Beveridge AwardAward1967Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAwardPulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward1927Born16 February 1927
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He was a self-described "leftish Democrat."
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Deceased
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Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 92
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