Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin | |
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Born | May 27, 1941 |
Died | June 5, 2018 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Maryland |
Doctoral students | Jessica Marie Johnson |
Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018[1]) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians.
Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998) and Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003).
Biography
Berlin grew up in
Berlin's work is concerned with what he termed the "striking diversity" in African-American life under slavery. He argues that this diversity is especially evident with attention to the differences in African-American life under slavery across geography and time.
He founded the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and served as director until 1991. The project's multi-volume Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation has twice been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government, as well as the J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association for outstanding editorial achievement (October, 1999). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[4]
In 2003, Berlin was the chief advisor for the
Selected bibliography
- Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974) ISBN 978-1-59558-173-0Tells the story of the free black men and women who lived in the South before the Civil War.
- Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (1982) Selections from the holdings of the National Archives; series one, volume three, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South, edited by Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland and Julie Saville.
- The Black Military Experience (ISBN 978-0-521-22984-5Collection of first-hand accounts from the National Archives.
- Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution, edited by Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman (University of Illinois Press, 1986) Essays.
- Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas, edited by Ira Berlin and ISBN 978-0-8139-1424-4Essays.
- Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era, edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland (ISBN 978-1-56584-026-3
- Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (ISBN 978-0-67400-211-1 1999 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University; 1999 Elliott Rudwick Prize of the Organization of American Historians; 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery; 1998 Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the category of History; 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction; co-recipient of the 1999 Southern Historical AssociationFrank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award.
- Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves (Harvard University Press, 2003) 2003 Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association; Anisfeld-Wolf Book Awardfor nonfiction.
- The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Viking, 2010)
- The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2015)[5]
Filmography
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Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
2005 | Slavery and the Making of America, PBS | Academic Advisor | |
2003 | Unchained Memories | Chief advisor | |
2007 | Prince Among Slaves
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Advising scholar |
References
- ^ Smith, Harrison (6 June 2018). "Ira Berlin, transformative historian of slavery in America, dies at 77". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ Ira Berlin Archived 2020-11-25 at the Wayback Machine University of Maryland, Department of History.
- American Historical Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, (Feb.1980). Quotation on 45.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
- ^ "The Long Emancipation — Ira Berlin | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-06.