Culross Palace

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[[Image:Culross Palace.jpg|thumb|250px|Culross Palace courtyard.]]

'''Culross Palace''' is a late 16th - early 17th century merchant's house in [[Culross]], [[Fife]], [[Scotland]].

The palace, or "Great Lodging", was constructed between 1597<ref name="statlist">{{cite web|title =Listed Building Report |date=1972-01-12|publisher=Historic Scotland| url =http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=23983 | accessdate = 2008-10-17 }}</ref> and 1611 by Sir [[George Bruce of Carnock|George Bruce]], the [[Laird]] of Carnock. Bruce was a successful merchant who had a flourishing trade with other [[Firth of Forth|Forth]] ports, the [[Low Countries]] and the [[Baltic countries]]. He had interests in [[coal mining]] and [[salt]] production, and is credited with sinking the world's first coal mine to extend under the [[sea]].

Many of the materials used in the construction of the palace were obtained during the course of Bruce's foreign trade. Baltic [[pine]], red [[pantile|pantiles]], and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] floor tiles and glass were all used. The exterior boasts the use of [[crow-step]]ped gables, including a statue of a [[veil]]ed woman posing on the [[gable]] step. The palace features fine interiors, with decorative mural and [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|ceiling painting]], 17th and 18th century furniture and a fine collection of [[Staffordshire]] and Scottish [[pottery]].

Although never a [[royal residence]], [[James I of England|James VI]] visited the Palace in 1617. The palace is now in the care of the [[National Trust for Scotland]] who have restored a model seventeenth-century garden, complete with raised beds, a covered walkway and crushed shell paths. The herbs, vegetables and fruit trees planted in the garden are types that were used in the early seventeenth century.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/22/ Culross Palace] - official site at National Trust for Scotland
* [http://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=69 Engraving of Culross Palace in 1693] by [[John Slezer]] at National Library of Scotland
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David Levering Lewis

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'''David Levering Lewis''' (born May 25, 1936) is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at [[New York University]]. He is twice winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|for Biography or Autobiography]], for part one and part two of his biography of [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes.<ref>[http://www.queenhyte.com/dobb/dobb_archives/dobb_01/may_01.htm ]{{dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref>

The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century [[United States]] social history and [[Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]]. His interests include nineteenth-century [[Africa]], [[twentieth-century France]], and [[Islamic Spain]].

==Life==
Lewis was born in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr., graduated from [[Morris Brown College]], was the first [[African American]] to graduate from [[Yale Divinity School]] and received an M.A. in [[sociology]] from the [[University of Chicago]], and was principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, and later served two terms as President of Morris Brown College. His mother taught high school math. Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and [[Xenia High School]] in [[Ohio]]. When the family moved to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], Lewis attended [[Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Georgia)|Booker T. Washington High School]] in his junior year until his early admission at age fifteen to [[Fisk University]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. He graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in 1956.

Lewis briefly attended the [[University of Michigan Law School]] but left to attend [[Columbia University]], where he earned his [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]] in [[history]] in 1959. In 1962, Lewis was awarded a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in modern European and French history from the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="thehistorymakers.com">http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1020&category=educationMakers</ref><ref name=oah>[http://www.oah.org/activities/lectureship/2005/lewis-david.html ]{{dead link|date=December 2012}}</ref>

In 1961-1962, Lewis served in the [[United States Army]] as a psychiatric technician and [[private first class]] in [[Landstuhl, Germany]].<ref>http://silverdialogues.fas.nyu.edu/docs/CP/301/LewisCV.pdf</ref>

In 1963, he lectured on medieval history at the [[University of Ghana]]. Lewis taught at [[Morgan State University]], the [[University of Notre Dame]], [[Howard University]], and the [[University of the District of Columbia]] from 1970 to 1980 as associate and full professor. His ''Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair'' appeared in 1974; ''The Bicentennial History of the District of Columbia'' appeared in 1976; and ''When Harlem Was in Vogue'' in 1980. Lewis was professor of history at [[University of California at San Diego]] before joining [[Rutgers University]] in 1985 as the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History. Lewis produced his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of W. E. B. Du Bois during his 18-year tenure at Rutgers. He completed research for his first Du Bois volume and finished writing ''The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa'', which appeared in 1987. In spring semester 2001, Lewis was distinguished visiting professor in Harvard's history department. In 2003, Lewis was appointed and is currently the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at [[New York University]].

Lewis is the author of the first academic biography of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], appearing less than two years after the subject's assassination. Besides the two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of W. E. B. Du Bois, he is also the 1994 winner of the [[Bancroft Prize]] and the [[Francis Parkman Prize]]. He has received fellowships from the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]], the [[National Humanities Center]], the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]], the [[John Simon Guggenheim Foundation]], the [[American Philosophical Society]], and the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]]. He is a former trustee of the National Humanities Center, former commissioner of the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]], and a former senator of [[Phi Beta Kappa]].

Lewis appeared as a historical expert in the 1999 film ''[[New York: A Documentary Film]]'', directed by [[Ric Burns]] for [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]. He was president of the [[Society of American Historians]] in 2002, and is a board member of the magazine ''[[The Crisis]]'', published by the [[NAACP]]. He is a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref name="thehistorymakers.com"/><ref name=oah/> and was an Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the ''[[American Academy in Berlin]]'', Germany, in spring 2008. President [[Barack Obama]] awarded the 2009 [[National Humanities Medal]] at the [[White House]] on February 25, 2010. Lewis delivered the inaugural convocation lecture, September 19, 2010, at [[New York University Abu Dhabi]].

Lewis lives in Manhattan and [[Stanfordville]], [[New York]] with his wife, Ruth Ann Stewart, Clinical Professor of Public Policy at [[New York University]]. Dr. Lewis has three adult children from his first marriage to Sharon Lynn Lewis: Eric Levering Lewis, Allison Lillian Lewis and Jason Bradwell Lewis along with a son-in-law Michael John Wilson and two granddaughters Marissa Lynn Wilson and Natalie Elise Wilson. Lewis also has a stepdaughter, Allegra Stewart.

==Books by David Levering Lewis==
* ''King: A Critical Biography'', Praeger Publishers, 1970. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979.
* ''Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair'', William Morrow, 1974.
* ''District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History'', W.W. Norton, 1976.
* ''The Race for Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in The Scramble for Africa.'' New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987 ISBN 1-55584-058-2
* ''The [[Harlem Renaissance]] Reader'' (editor) (1994)
* ''When Harlem Was in Vogue'' (Alfred Knopf, 1981) (Penguin, 1997) ISBN 0-14-026334-9
* ''[[W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919]],'' (Owl Books 1994). Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and winner also of the Bancroft and Parkman prizes.
* ''[[W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963]]'' (Owl Books 2001). Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the [[Anisfield-Wolf Book Award]]
* (with [[Deborah Willis (artist)|Deborah Willis]]) ''A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Portraits of Progress,'' HarperCollins, 2003.
* ''God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215,'' (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008)
* ''The Implausible Wendell Willkie: Leadership Ahead of Its Time'' in [[Walter Isaacson]] (ed.) ''Profiles in Leadership'' ([[W. W. Norton & Company]], 2011)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/david_levering_lewis_2009_web/ "W.E.B. DuBois as a Historical Novelist"] Audio recording: David Levering Lewis at the [[Key West Literary Seminar]], 2009
*[http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june01/davelevlew_04-23.html 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner talks about the second volume in his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois] with [[Gwen Ifill]]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/series/interview/lewis.html Lewis On How Harlem Became A Place For African Americans]
*[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/53447-1/David+Levering+Lewis.aspx interview with Lewis on ''W.E.B. Dubois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919''], on ''[[Booknotes]]'', January 2, 1994
*[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Leveri interview with Lewis], on ''[[In Depth]]'', February 3, 2008] on [[C-SPAN]]

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