 Culture, in his view, involves a cacophony of voices but also social relations that involve hierarchy, exploitation, and resistance.Davis taught more than a generation of students, and advised many doctoral students, including such future prize-winning historians as Edward Ayers, Karen Halttunen, T. J. Jackson Lears, Steven Mintz, Lewis Perry, Joan Shelley Rubin, Jonathan Sarna, Barbara Savage, Amy Dru Stanley, Christine Stansell, John Stauffer, and Sean Wilentz.Davis's students have honored him with two "festschrifts," "Moral Problems in American Life" (1998), edited by Karen Halttunen and Lewis Perry, and "The Problem of Evil