Bibliography of Jefferson Davis

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."

Biographies

• Alfriend, Frank H. (1868). The Life of Jefferson Davis. Caxton Publishing House; Philadelphia.
• Allen, Felicity (1999). Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. The University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826212191.
• Bancroft, A. C. (1889). The Life and Death of Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Southern Confederacy: Together with Comments of the Press, Funeral Sermons, etc., etc. Oglivie. OCLC 1048340011.
• Cooper, William J. (2000). Jefferson Davis, American. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3077-7264-0. OCLC 1035904007.
• Cutting, Elisabeth (1930). Jefferson Davis, Political Soldier. Dodd, Mead and Company. OCLC 1035928281.
• Davis, William C. (1991). Jefferson Davis: The Man and his Hour. Harpercollins. ISBN 0060167068. OCLC 1150103061. - Wikipedia article on the book: Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour
• Davis, Varina (1890). Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Confederate States of America, a memoir, Vol I. New York : Belford Co. OCLC 1029853778.
• Davis, Varina (1890). Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Confederate States of America, a memoir, Vol II. New York : Belford Co. OCLC 1029853778.
• Dodd, William E. (1907). Jefferson Davis. George W. Jacobs and Company. ISBN 9780722290484.
• Eaton, Clement (1977). Jefferson Davis. Free Press. ISBN 0029087007. OCLC 1035928281.
• Eckenrode, Hamilton J. (1923). Jefferson Davis, President of the South. MacMillan. OCLC 1047517195.
• Fleming, Walter L. (1917). The Early Life of Jefferson Davis. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1043017637.
• McElroy, Robert N. (1995) [1937]. Jefferson Davis: The Real and The Unreal. Smithmark. ISBN 0831710071. OCLC 1150111549.
• Pollard, Edward A. (1869). Life of Jefferson Davis with a Secret History of the southern Confederacy, Gathered "Behind the Scenes in Richmond.". National Publishing. OCLC 1048313016.
• Strode, Hudson (1955). Jefferson Davis, Volume I: American Patriot. Harcourt, Brace & Company. OCLC 1035912264.
• Strode, Hudson (1959). Jefferson Davis, Volume II: Confederate President. Harcourt, Brace & Company. OCLC 1150115051.
• Strode, Hudson (1964). Jefferson Davis, Volume III: Tragic Hero. Harcourt, Brace & Company. OCLC 1150063449.
• Tate, Allen (1929). Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall, a Biographical Narrative. Minton, Balch & Company. OCLC 1345571855.
• Winston, Robert W (1930). High Stakes and Hair Trigger: The Life of Jefferson Davis. Henry Holt & Company.

Books (specialized studies)

• Ballard, Michael B. (1986). A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy]. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9780820319414. OCLC 1036689136. - Wikipedia article on the book: A Long Shadow
• Beringer, Richard E.; Hattaway, Herman; Jones, Archer; Still, William N. Jr. (1986). Why the South Lost the Civil War. University of Georgia Press.
• Cashin, Joan E. (2006). First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674022942. OCLC 0674022947.
• Collins, Donald E. (2005). The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780742543041.
• Cooper, William J. (2008). Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807133712. OCLC 1302084578.
• Dugard, Martin (2009). The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846–1848. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803228122. OCLC 1302546114.
• Eckert, Edward K. (1987). "Fiction Distorting Fact": Prison life, annotated by Jefferson Davis. Mercer University Press. ISBN 0865542015. OCLC 1200471494.
• Escott, Paul (1978). After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807118078.
• Hattaway, Herman; Beringer, Richard E. (2002). Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700611706.'
• Icenhauer-Ramirez, Robert (2019). Treason on Trial: The United States v. Jefferson Davis. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807170809. OCLC 1056201876..
• McPherson, James M. (2014). Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. Penguin Press. ISBN 9781594204975. OCLC 1204326178.
• Patrick, Rembert W. (1944). Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet. Louisiana State University Press.
• Swanson, James L. (2010). Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061233791.
• Warren, Robert Penn (1980). Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813114453.
• Winders, Richard B. (2016). Panting For Glory: The Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War. Texas A & M University. ISBN 9781623494162. OCLC 933438558.
• Woodworth, Steven E. (1990). Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700604616.

Journal articles

• 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

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