Donald E. Davis is an American writer and historian. Previously, Davis was a professor at

Illinois State University Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teachin ...

Early life and education

Davis earned his bachelor's degree from

San Francisco State College San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the Califor ...

. He attended graduate school at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

, where he obtained his MA and PhD, focusing on Russian history. Davis wrote his dissertation on

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

and theories of warfare, especially those of Clausewitz. At San Francisco State College, Harold H. Fisher mentored him; at Indiana University Bloomington, he studied with Robert F. Byrnes and Robert H. Ferrell.

Career

Davis edited, ''No East or West: The Memoirs of Paul B. Anderson. He coauthored The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S. - Soviet Relations'' with Eugene P. Trani, an American diplomatic historian. Additionally, ''Distorted Mirrors; The Reporter Who Knew Too Much; A Bridge to Somewhere''; WHEN THE WORLD DIES: Life and Death in an Age of Infamy. In 2004, Davis retired from Illinois State University after 40 years of teaching courses in European, Russian, and Soviet history. He was one of the university’s longest serving faculty members in the history department. He is a member of the American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (AASEEES) and has published in its journal, the

Slavic Review The ''Slavic Review'' is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present". ...

("The American YMCA and the Russian Revolution" volume 33, number 3, pages 469–91) as well as in many other scholarly journals and anthologies. His personal archive, the "Davis Collection," is at the

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and formerly The Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic ...

, Stanford University.

Personal life

Davis is married to Mary Davis, a retired elementary school teacher and director of a multi-county rural transport system, SHOW BUS. The couple has two children, a son and daughter.

Bibliography

*''No East or West: The Memoirs of Paul B. Anderson'' (1985) *''The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S. - Soviet Relations'' (2002 - also published in Russian and Chinese editions) *''Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century'' (2009 - also published in Russian, Spanish, and Chinese editions) *''The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times'' (2012) *''A Bridge to Somewhere: The Tragedy of the Messina Strait Bridge Project'' (2014) WHEN THE WORLD DIES:Life and Death in an Age of Infamy

References

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