David Brion Davis, In the Image of God (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 6-7.

Moral progress may be historical, cultural and institutional, but it isn’t inevitable. Americans from the Civil War to World War II, (New York: Anchor Press, 2008).

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. Davis, David Brion. Stampp was a visiting professor at Harvard in 1955 as Davis … Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. David Brion Davis: The Great War and Modern Memory (arts and letters) Paul Fussell: Passage to Ararat (contemporary affairs) Michael J. Arlen: 1977: Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (biography and autobiography) W.A.

David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is a principal authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. is subtle, wide-ranging and consistently judicious . A Selective Bibliography on Slavery and Emancipation in the United States Overviews of American Slavery Ira Berlin, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World Peter Kolchin, American Slavery: 1619-1877 The Slave Trade Robert Harms, The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade James McMillan, … David Brion Davis, Historian Who 'Shook Up' The Study Of Slavery, Dies At 92 The historian's trilogy, The Problem of Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize and the … ... David Brion Davis, Gordon Wood, Eric Foner, David McCullough, David Hackett Fischer. David Brion Davis, “World War II and Memory,” The Journal of American History, Vol. "Slavery and the Post-World War II Historians." . ... on naval history and on World War II … . Like many others in many countries, I was a child when World War II began and was an infantry private when it ended. An authoritative historical account of the re-enslavement of post-Civil War African Americans through systems of convict leasing, debt peonage, and mass incarceration. The American South as self and other. Blight, David, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA: . Praise for David Brion Davis and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation: “Less a political historian than a moral philosopher . Escott, Paul D. Slavery Remembered: A Record of …
. DAVID BRION DAVIS Slavery and the Post-World War II Historians Five Turning Points in the Postwar Historiography of Negro Slavery In the opening paragraph of Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959), Stanley M. Elkins refers to "certain inhibitions" that had continued to govern discussions of American Negro slavery. World War II and Memory David Brion Davis Trained as a combat infantryman during the last months of World War II, I came closest to actual combat in a confrontation between black and white American troops in occupied Germany. . his analysis . 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. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, … It is hard to imagine American history without David Brion Davis, who died on April 14, 2019, at the age of 92. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is a principal authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. The Civil War in American Memory. [1] Elkins, Stanley M. Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Daedalus 103 (Spring 1974): 1-16. Columbia University Libraries are the heart of the intellectual life at Columbia, and inspire inquiry, advance knowledge, catalyze discovery, and shape an inclusive and vibrant discourse all enabled by the work of the dedicated staff who are the heart of the Libraries. 77, No. [1] . Professor Davis was one of the great post-World War II historians of slavery and antislavery, a scholar who thought deeply about the moral dimensions of history and human progress. James M. McPherson: By the Book. 2 (September 1990), p. 587.