Awards & Winners

David Brion Davis

Date of Birth 16-February-1927
Place of Birth Denver
(Colorado, United States of America, Area code 303, Area code 720, Area codes 303 and 720)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as David B. Davis
Profession Historian, Professor, Author, Editor
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. He has held one-year appointments as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and as the first French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Awards by David Brion Davis

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Brion Davis.

1976


Bancroft Prize
Honored for : The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Honored for : The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction) The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

1967


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Honored for : The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction) The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture