Ben Davidson is currently a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and is also the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to teach at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Spring 2024. Ben received his PhD from New York University, and he previously served as the Henry Fairbanks Visiting Scholar at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. His current book manuscript, Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation, traces the lives of Black and white children from across the nation who grew up during the Civil War era. He is also working on projects about intersections between Jewish emancipation and the abolition of slavery and on the Freedman's Savings Bank.