David Brion Davis
1927 - 2019
General Information
Bio
(1927-2019) Historian. David Brion Davis was born in Denver, Colorado, and died in Guilford, Connecticut.
Full Name
David Brion Davis
Locations
Tompkins
Author's Timeline
1927
BIRTH
David Brion Davis was born in Denver, Colorado, on February 16, 1927.
1955
OTHER
Professor Davis taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from 1955 to 1969.
1957
LITWORK
Homicide In American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study In Social Values
Cornell University Press
Nonfiction.
Cornell University Press
Nonfiction.
1966
LITWORK
The Problem Of Slavery In Western Culture
Cornell University Press
0801401011 / 978-0801401015
Nonfiction winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award finalist.
Cornell University Press
0801401011 / 978-0801401015
Nonfiction winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award finalist.
1969
LITWORK
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
Louisiana State University Press
Nonfiction.
Louisiana State University Press
Nonfiction.
1975
LITWORK
The Problem of Slavery In The Age Of Revolution, 1770-1823
Cornell University Press
978-0801408885
Nonfiction winner of the National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize.
Cornell University Press
978-0801408885
Nonfiction winner of the National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize.
1984
LITWORK
Slavery And Human Progress
Oxford University Press
0195034392 / 978-0195034394
Nonfiction.
Oxford University Press
0195034392 / 978-0195034394
Nonfiction.
1986
LITWORK
From Homicide To Slavery: Studies In American Culture
Oxford University Press
0195040899 / 978-0195040890
Nonfiction.
Oxford University Press
0195040899 / 978-0195040890
Nonfiction.
1990
LITWORK
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations
Harvard University Press
0674768051 / 978-0674768055
Nonfiction.
Harvard University Press
0674768051 / 978-0674768055
Nonfiction.
2001
LITWORK
In The Image Of God: Religion, Moral Values, And Our Heritage Of Slavery
Yale University Press
0300088140 / 978-0300088144
Nonfiction.
Yale University Press
0300088140 / 978-0300088144
Nonfiction.
2006
LITWORK
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise And Fall Of Slavery In The New World
Oxford University Press
0195140737 / 978-0195140736
Nonfiction.
Oxford University Press
0195140737 / 978-0195140736
Nonfiction.
2014
LITWORK
The Problem Of Slavery In The Age Of Emancipation
Cornell University Press
978-0801408885
Nonfiction winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Cornell University Press
978-0801408885
Nonfiction winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
2019
DEATH
David Brion Davis died at a care facility in Guilford, Connecticut, on April 14, 2019.
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