David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
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How They Stopped Slavery: A New Perspective
June 6, 2013
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865
by James Oakes
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Should You Have Been an Abolitionist?
June 21, 2012
The Abolitionist Imagination
by Andrew Delbanco, with commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay
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The British & the Slave Trade
January 12, 2012
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Honor Thy Honor
October 27, 2011
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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The Universal Attractions of Slavery
December 17, 2009
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery
by Seymour Drescher
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He Changed the New World
May 31, 2007
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
by Madison Smartt Bell
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Blacks: Damned by the Bible
November 16, 2006
The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by David M. Goldenberg
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‘That Hamilton Man’: An Exchange
May 26, 2005
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Catching the Conquerors
May 29, 2003
Captives
by Linda Colley
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The Terrible Cost of Reconciliation
July 18, 2002
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War
by R.J.M. Blackett
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
by David W. Blight
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‘The Many-Headed Hydra’: An Exchange
September 20, 2001
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SlaveryWhite, Black, Muslim, Christian
July 5, 2001
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh
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The Election Mess
February 8, 2001
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The Other Revolution
October 5, 2000
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830-1860
by Bonnie S. Anderson
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
by Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes
Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Ken Burns, by Paul Barnes
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Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange
March 9, 2000
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Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange
March 9, 2000
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C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)
February 10, 2000
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Jews and Blacks in America
December 2, 1999
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
by Hasia Diner
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
edited by Jack Salzman, by Cornel West
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism
by Seth Forman
What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance
by Murray Friedman
African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict
edited by V.P. Franklin, by Nancy L. Grant, by Harold M. Kletnick, by Genna Rae McNeil
killing rage: ending racism
by bell hooks
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The Big Business of Slavery
April 8, 1999
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A Big Business
June 11, 1998
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
by Hugh Thomas
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800
by Robin Blackburn
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White Wives and Slave Mothers
February 20, 1997
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E. Stevenson
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At the Heart of Slavery
October 17, 1996
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The Southern League
November 16, 1995
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Southern Comfort
October 5, 1995
The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism by Eugene D. Genovese
The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 18201860
by Eugene D. Genovese
The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War
by Eugene D. Genovese
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Slavery & the Jews
March 2, 1995
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The Slave Trade and the Jews
December 22, 1994
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A Later Triumph
June 9, 1994
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The Triumph of the Country
May 12, 1994
The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins, by Eric McKitrick
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Terror in Mississippi
November 4, 1993
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan
Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation edited by C. Peter Ripley, edited by Roy E. Finkenbine, edited by Michael F. Hembree, edited by Donald Yacovone
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, edited by Barbara J. Fields, edited by Steven F. Miller, edited by Joseph P. Reidy, edited by Leslie S. Rowland
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The American Dilemma
July 16, 1992
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker
The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
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Wounds
April 23, 1992
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Life and Death in Slavery
January 30, 1992
Celia: A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin
Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North
by Thomas P. Slaughter
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The White World of Frederick Douglass
May 16, 1991
Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
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Slaves in Islam
October 11, 1990
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Bernard Lewis
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Woodward’s Itinerary
June 14, 1990
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The Rebel
May 17, 1990
The Future of the Past by C. Vann Woodward
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It Wasn’t Peter Salem
May 18, 1989
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The Ends of Slavery
March 30, 1989
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman. transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript, edited by Richard Price, by Sally Price
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 17761848 by Robin Blackburn
The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality
by George M. Fredrickson
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The Benefit of Slavery
March 31, 1988
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by David Eltis
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective by Seymour Drescher
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The Labyrinth of Slavery
November 5, 1987
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein
Mutiny on the ‘Amistad’: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones
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Niebuhr & Supernaturalism
March 27, 1986
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American Jeremiah
February 13, 1986
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox
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Secrets of the Mormons
August 15, 1985
America’s Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power
by Robert Gottlieb, by Peter Wiley
Mormonism: The Story of A New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington
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Of Human Bondage
February 17, 1983
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson
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Out of the Shadows
November 5, 1981
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume One: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Vercoutter, by Jean Leclant, by Frank M. Snowden Jr., by Jehan Desanges, translated by William Granger Ryan
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery” Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, with a preliminary essay by Jean Marie Courtès, translated by William Granger Ryan
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery” Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries) general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, by Michel Mollat, translated by William Granger Ryan
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The Walter Rodney Affair
May 14, 1981
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The Crime of Reform
June 26, 1980
Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
by David J. Rothman
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Uncle Oedipus and Ante Bellum
October 25, 1979
Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age by George B. Forgie
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Marlboro Country
May 3, 1979
History of the Westward Movement by Frederick Merk
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The Invasion of the Family
February 23, 1978
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged by Christopher Lasch
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Paranoid History
December 2, 1971