# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-c-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:08.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-c-davis"
name: "William C. Davis"
slug: "william-c-davis"
description: "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. 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. 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. His book Lone Star Rising has been called \"the best one-volume history of the Texas revolution yet written\"."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_c_davis_7355.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.01
  momentum:             1.204588910133843
  historical:           6.154429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2125575/"
    handle:    "nm2125575"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.civilwar.vt.edu/wcd/davis.html"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ويليام س. ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام س. ديفيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Davis_(Historiker)"
    title: "William C. Davis (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Davis_(historian)"
    title: "William C. Davis (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Davis"
    title: "William C. Davis"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8006288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4669810"
    title: "William C. Davis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump