William C Davis: 20 books
Battle at Bull Run
A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within...
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America...
The Orphan Brigade
The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
On September 18, 1861, ominous sounds of battle thundering in the distance, the Kentucky legislature voted to align itself with the Union. It was a decision which tore at the heart of the state, splitting apart families and severing friendships. For the newly formed First Kentucky Brigade, it marked...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."
Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only...
Inventing Loreta Velasquez
Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
She went by many names—Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more—but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In Inventing Loreta Velasquez, acclaimed historian William C. Davis delves into the...
Lincoln's Men
How President Lincoln Became Father To an Army an
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers...
So wrote Private Joe Hass to Abraham Lincoln, February 20, 1864. Like an extraordinary...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions...
Beyond the Bounds
Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
"Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
–C. S. Lewis
This understanding of God's foreknowledge has united the church for twenty centuries. But advocates of "open theism" are presenting a different vision of God and a different...
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of...
Government of Our Own
The Making of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to...
The Rogue Republic
How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: “One rollicking good book.” —Jay Winik
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida—what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s...
Three Roads to the Alamo
The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history—and about what really happened in that battle.
Civil War Writing
New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings...
Crucible of Command
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leaders-how they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation
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