David Brion Davis
Historian, Author
1927 –
Who is David Brion Davis?
David Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a foremost intellectual and cultural historian. The author and editor of sixteen books, and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Davis has played a principal role in explaining the latest historiography to a broad audience. 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.
Davis taught at Yale from 1970 to 2001, after serving on the Cornell University faculty for 14 years.
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- Born
- Feb 16, 1927
Denver - Also known as
- David B. Davis
- Parents
- Spouses
- Toni Hahn Davis
(1971/09/09 - )
- Toni Hahn Davis
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
History
(1951 - 1956) - Dartmouth College
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Orange
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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