William C. Davis, Professor; Director of Programs, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, (MA Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, 1969)

Areas of Specialization: United States to 1865, political and social history of the Civil War, especially the onfederacy; the Old Southwest
Current Research: Smugglers in the Gulf of Mexico 1800-1830; the Oregon Trail; Tariff history in the United States
Recent Publications:
• Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad, by Edwin De Leon. Editor. [University Press of Kansas, 2005].
•The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf. [Harcourt, 2005].
•Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic. [Free Press, 2004.]