Subdivision
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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Edward C. Carter | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | October 1, 2002 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. David Brion Davis | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | April 14, 2019 | | | | | | |
David Brion Davis was Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University at the time of his retirement. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1956 and joined the faculty at Yale in 1969 after teaching previously at Dartmouth and Cornell Universities. He also served as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University from 1969-70 and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences from 1972-73. A brilliant and sound historian, Dr. Davis was also known as one of the best literary stylists among United States historians. He wrote several books on slavery, including a multi-volume series, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975), which earned him a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among other honors. His other books include Homicide in American Fiction (1957) and Revolutions: American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1990). Dr. Davis also wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. He was awarded the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction, the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Phi Beta Kappa's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (for Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World) in 2007. The last volume of his trilogy (which was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, was released in 2014, the same year he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.David Brion Davis died April 14, 2019 in Guilford Connecticut at the age of 92. | |
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