William c davis biography

ADP: You established your reputation as one of the foremost authorities of the American Civil War.

Why a book on the Alamo trinity?

WCD:Three Roads to the Alamo really came about by accident. Several years ago Kevin Young said to me that we really needed a good biography of James Bowie.

William Charles "Jack" Davis 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.

William Charles "Jack" Davis 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.

William C. Davis is a prolific historian, retired history professor from Virginia Tech, and was for more than twenty years a magazine and book publishing.

William Charles "Jack" Davis (born ) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at.

Biography.

William Columbus Davis (August 5, – October 4, ) was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from to A Democrat, Davis served Governor.

Having been writing Civil War books for almost twenty years at that point, I was getting just a bit tired of the same subject area time after time, and I filed this away as a possible diversion from the Late Unpleasantness. Then I thought of doing a Crockett biography until I heard that Paul Hutton was well along on his.

Finally the idea of doing the three Alamo icons struck me-of course Virgil Baugh had done it back in about 1960, but not very well-and my publisher liked the idea. In fact, I have gotten sufficiently jaded on the Civil War that now every other book I do is on some other era.

In a couple of years I'll be writing a dual biography of Jean and Pierre Laffite, for instance, an o