Ira Berlin was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians.
10 Facts About Ira Berlin
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Ira Berlin grew up in Bronx, New York, and received his Ph.
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Ira Berlin wrote extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Ira Berlin focused in particular on the history of slavery in the United States.
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Ira Berlin's work is concerned with what he termed the "striking diversity" in African-American life under slavery.
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Ira Berlin argues that this diversity is especially evident with attention to the differences in African-American life under slavery across geography and time.
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Ira Berlin argues that geographic and temporal differences in the first two centuries of North American slavery had important consequences for African American culture and society.
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Ira Berlin founded the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and served as director until 1991.
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Ira Berlin was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
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In 2003, Ira Berlin was the chief advisor for the HBO documentary Unchained Memories.