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Bibliography of Jefferson Davis

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Photograph of Jefferson Davis by W. W. Washburn (1888)

The following is a list of scholarly resources related to Jefferson Davis.

Due to the large amount of biographies of Davis published by 1992, Emory M. Thomas of the University of Georgia made a parody bumper sticker stating "Honk if you're not writing a biography of Jefferson Davis."[1]

Biographies

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Books (specialized studies)

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Journal articles

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  • Bleser, Carol K. (1999). "The Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis:"I gave the best and all my life to a girdled tree."". Journal of Southern History. 65 (1): 3–40. doi:10.2307/2587730. JSTOR 2587730.
  • Fleming, Walter L. (1920). "Some documents related to Jefferson Davis at West Point". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 7 (2): 146–152. doi:10.2307/1902656. JSTOR 1902656.
  • Muldowny, John (1969). "Jefferson Davis: The postwar years". The Mississippi Quarterly. 23 (1): 17–35. JSTOR 26473833.
  • Scanlan, P. L. (1940). "The military record of Jefferson Davis in Wisconsin". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 24 (2): 174–182. JSTOR 4631371.
  • Waite, Kevin (2016). "Jefferson Davis and proslavery visions of empire in the Far West" (PDF). Journal of the Civil War Era. 8 (4): 536–565. doi:10.1353/cwe.2016.0072. JSTOR 26070455. S2CID 164302059.
  • Wiley, Bell I. (January 1967). "Jefferson Davis: An Appraisal". Civil War Times Illustrated. 6 (1): 4–17.
  • Williams, Kenneth H.; Cooper, William J. Jr.; Roland, Charles P. (2003). Williams, Kenneth H. (ed.). "Slavery, the Civil War, and Jefferson Davis: An Interview with William J. Cooper Jr. and Charles P. Roland". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 101 (4): 400–456. JSTOR 23387081.

Miscelleaneous

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  • Neely, Mark E. Jr. (1993). Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties (lecture). Marquette University Press. pp. 1–23. ISBN 9780874623253..

References

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  1. ^ Hattaway, Herman (1992-12-01). "Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour". Journal of American History. 79 (3): 1178–1179. doi:10.2307/2080868. JSTOR 2080868. - Cited: p. 1178. The JSTOR page (when logged in) misidentifies the author as "Steven E. Woodworth" but the reviewer is actually Herman Hattaway, as identified on page 1179.