What is David Brion Davis?
'''David Brion Davis''' (February 16, 1927 &ndash; April 14, 2019) was an American educator and [[historian]]. His works were mainly about [[slavery]] and [[abolitionism|abolition]] in the Western world. He was a [[Sterling Professor|Sterling Professor of History]] at [[Yale University]], and founder and director of Yale’s [[Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition]]. He was born in [[Denver, Colorado]]. Davis died on April 14, 2019 in [[Guilford, Connecticut]] at the age of 92.<ref>[https://glc.yale.edu/news/david-brion-davis-founding-director-glc-1927-2019 David Brion Davis, Founding Director of the GLC (1927-2019)]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, David Brion}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Educators from Denver]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:Writers from Denver]] {{US-bio-stub}}