104th NCSS Annual Conference

Kenneth C. Davis is The New York Times bestselling author of America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned, which gave rise to his "Don't Know Much About" series of books on subjects including geography, the Civil War, mythology, and the Bible.  He is also the author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives (2016), his first work of narrative nonfiction for young adults.  Turning his attention to the importance of books, reading, and intellectual curiosity, he has written Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly (2022).  His new book, The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction (October 2024), is a guide to classic works of nonfiction from Lao Tzu and Genesis to Dante and Joan Didion.  More about Mr. Davis and his work can be found at dontknowmuchabout.com.