C Davis: 154 books
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...
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...
Don't Know Much About Literature
What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential literary worksand writers
Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece?
Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration?
Which French-speaking...
by Kenneth C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it,that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president?
From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected king,"...
Don't Know Much About Geography
Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.
Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics,...
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...
The Hidden History of America at War
Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles, revealing untold tales that span...
by Rick Ollerman, Michael Stanley, Frederick C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Issue four closes our exciting first year with the very talented debut of Arthur Klepchukov. His intelligent “A Damn Fine Town” is followed by film director and writer John Shepphird and a prequel to his award-nominated “Shill” trilogy, a bit of a teaser for those of you who may not have discovered...
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...
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With wit, wisdom, and an extraordinary talent for turning dry, difficult reading into colorful and realistic accounts, the creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About®, series now brings the world of the Old and New testaments to life as no one else can in the bestseller Don't Know Much About®...
by LM Cooke, Steven C Davis, Ian Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
A collection of new and original steampunk short stories.
Tommy's Game by LM Cooke
A young man is drawn into an unusual - and lethal - game of chance.
Celestine by Steven C Davis
A sophisticated automaton awakes in a confused state in a laboratory; how did she arrive there...
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...
by Kenneth C Davis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Desde las antiguas civilizaciones que hicieron mapas de los cielos a Star Trek, X-Files y Apolo 13, el espacio sideral ha intrigado a la gente por mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros miramos el cielo nocturno y sentimos que no sabemos nada en cuanto a los hechos principales del universo.
Kenneth...
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...