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- David Brion Davis is a principal authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the 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 shifting the focus of historical study toward the way historical events are experienced, perceived, structured, and understood. Especially important in his interpretations of history are religion, the way that most individuals have, for millennia, sought to understand their place in the world and the meaning and direction of history, and ideology, which he regards as the link between material conditions, political interests, and the individual. 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. He has been the Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University and a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and held the first French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. One of the history profession’s most honored members, he served as president of the Organization of American Historians and has received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the National Book Award for History and Biography, the (AHA) American Historical Association's Albert Beveridge Award in 1975 for The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Davis also received the AHA's Award for Scholarly Distinction, the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2009, he received Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal.
- David Brion Davis ist ein ehemaliger amerikanischer Professor der Geschichte an der Universität Yale. Er ist für seine Studien zur Sklaverei und zum Abolitionismus bekannt.
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