William C. Davis | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:William_c_davis_7355.JPG) Davis at the 2015 Gaithersburg Book Festival. | |
| Born | William Charles Davis 1946 (age 77–78) Independence, Missouri, U.S. |
| Other names | W.C. Davis |
| Education | Sonoma State University (BA, MA) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Studies of the American Civil War |
| Notable work | The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy (1996) |
| Website | civilwar.vt.edu |
William Charles "Jack" Davis (born 1946) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. Specializing in the American Civil War, Davis has written more than 40 books on that subject and other aspects of early southern U.S. history, such as the Texas Revolution.[1] He is the only three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Prize for Confederate history and was awarded the Jules and Frances Landry Award for Southern History.[2] His book Lone Star Rising has been called "the best one-volume history of the Texas revolution yet written".[3]
- ^ Sluss, Michael (May 10, 2000), "Civil War Historian Coming to Tech", The Roanake Times, Roanoke, VA
- ^ Jefferson Davis (May 2015). Lynda Lasswell Crist; Suzanne Scott Gibbs (eds.). Vol 14 1880-1889 - The Papers of Jefferson Davis. introduction by William C. Davis. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-80715-909-5.
- ^ Barra, Allen (April 4, 2004), "Books on Texas Take on State's Prickly History", St. Louis Post-Dispatch