{"id":1050,"date":"2012-06-12T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:44:06","slug":"davis-william-columbus-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, WILLIAM COLUMBUS, 1910-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; August 28, 1910, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Columbus and Maude (Gray) Davis. Married&#8211;(1) Mildred Dorman, July 24, 1948 (died 1986); married (2) Dorothy Ann Fleetwood, 1987.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1931; M.A., 1932; Harvard, M.A., 1943; Ph.D. 1948. Held several staff positions at the U.S.Senate, 1933-46; taught Latin American Studies at the University of Georgia, 1948-1951; George Washington University, 1951-1966; National War College, 1963-1974. Member Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Phi. Died December 24, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 7th ed.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Columns of Athens, Georgia&#8217;s Classic City. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Conquistadores; the Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1950<\/p>\n<p>Warnings from the Far South: Democracy versus Dictatorship in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. 1995..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soviet Bloc Latin American Activities and Their Implications for United States Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature.\u00a0 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Index to Writings in American History, 1902-1940.\u00a0 1956<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; August 28, 1910, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Columbus and Maude (Gray) Davis. Married&#8211;(1) Mildred Dorman, July 24, 1948 (died 1986); married (2) Dorothy Ann Fleetwood, 1987.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1931; M.A., 1932; Harvard, M.A., 1943; Ph.D. 1948. Held several staff positions at the U.S.Senate, 1933-46; taught Latin American Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9185,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}