William C. Davis

Who is William C. Davis?

William Charles Davis is professor of history at Virginia Tech and Director of Programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. An expert on the American Civil War, Davis has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has written more than 40 books on the War and other aspects of early Southern U.S. history. He is the only three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Prize for Confederate history and was awarded the Jules F. Landry Award for Southern history. His book Lone Star Rising has been called "the best one-volume history of the Texas revolution yet written".