Monday Feb 29, 2016 - 6:30 PM
Alexandria, VA
William C. “Jack” Davis, a native of Independence, Missouri, was educated in northern California, and then spent twenty years in editorial management in the magazine and book publishing industry. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books in the fields of Civil War and Southern history, as well as numerous documentary screenplays. He was the on-camera senior consultant for 52 episodes of the Arts & Entertainment Network/History Channel series “Civil War Journal,” as well as a number of other productions on commercial, BBC, and Public Television. He has acted as historical consultant for several television and film productions, including “The Blue and the Gray,” “George Washington,” and “The Perfect Tribute.”
He is the only three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Award given for book-length works in Confederate History. His most recent book is The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, published in 2005 by Harcourt.
Davis came to Virginia Tech as Director of Programs for the new Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, as well as serving as Professor of History. In coming to Virginia he is in a way returning to his roots, since his Davis ancestors settled in nearby Carroll and Grayson Counties some 200 years ago, and virtually all of his ancestry goes back in the Old Dominion, some as far as 1608. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING.
RSVP: Monday February 29th Dinner Meeting with speaker Jack Davis at the American Legion Post 24 Hall at 400 Cameron Street at S. Royal St behind Gadsby’s Tavern (up the stairs), doors open at 6:30 PM. The cost is $25 per person if paid ahead of time or $30 pp at the door.
Send RSVP to:
J.J. Smith, SCV and MOS&B Adjutant
401 Wilkes Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703 299-1725 email: jossmith@mba1962.hbs.edu
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