William C. Davis

Person · Open Library

Born

1946

Works

121

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

28

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,873x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,019x

3. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

   · 1989 · cited 45,434x

4. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,811x

5. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,664x

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Quotes

• “It is impossible to point to any other local issue but slavery and say that Southerners would have seceded and fought over it.”
• “All peoples part with their myths reluctantly, and historians are at some risk when they try to dismantle those of the Confederacy.”
• “Myths simply throw roadblocks in the path to enlightenment, and it is from truth that we have the most to learn. One man's truth, however, can be another's myth, and only through dispassionate and disinterested dissection of such stories can we tell the difference. The Confederate experience is dotted with episodes that are not particularly admirable.”
• “In fact, the state rights defense of secession in 1860&ndash;1861 did not really appear in force until after 1865 as builders of the Lost Cause myth sought to distance themselves from slavery.”
• “Legalistic Southerners tried to view the Constitution as a contract. Unfortunately, that viewpoint breaks down when viewed as a lawyer views a contract. There are very few ways to legally break a contract unilaterally.”
• “Always there had been the complicated factor of the one institution that peculiarly set the South apart from the North, slavery...”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

William

Family name

Davis

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Iuka

Occupation

politician

Political party

Democratic Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Image

William Columbus Davis.png

Work location

Montgomery

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