Robert S. Davis

ROBERT S. DAVIS is director of the Family and Regional History Program, Wallace State Community College, a program that pioneers local and family history research in a college environment. His more than 1,000 publications on records and research include a number of books and more than 70 articles in professional journals. He has been quoted or interviewed by Time, Smithsonian, CNN, NBC, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839–1912 (Mercer University Press 1998) and Requim for a Lost City: Sallie Clayton’s Memoirs of Civil War Atlanta (Mercer University Press 1999).