Bertram Wyatt-Brown | |
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| Born | March 19, 1932 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | November 5, 2012 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Sewanee: The University of the South King's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Historian |
Bertram Wyatt-Brown (March 19, 1932 – November 5, 2012) was a notedhistorian of theSouthern United States. He was the Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at theUniversity of Florida, where he taught from 1983 to 2004; he also taught atCase Western University for nearly two decades. He studied the role of honor in southern society, in all classes, and wrote a family study of the Percy Family, including twentieth-century authorsWilliam Alexander Percy andWalker Percy.
Born inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wyatt-Brown was the son of Laura H. andHunter Wyatt-Brown, an Episcopal priest who became a bishop.[1] Wyatt-Brown was prepared at historic Saint James School in Maryland, then matriculated at theUniversity of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, earning hisB.A. in 1953.
He joined the Armed Services and served from 1953 to 1955, becoming a lieutenant junior grade in theNaval Reserve.[1] After his military service, he received a second B.A. degree fromKing's College atCambridge University in 1957. Wyatt-Brown earned hisPh.D. in history atJohns Hopkins University in 1963, having worked under the supervision ofC. Vann Woodward, the noted historian of the South.
Wyatt-Brown was the Richard J. Milbauer ProfessorEmeritus at theUniversity of Florida, where he taught from 1983 to 2004, and Visiting Scholar,Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught atColorado State University,University of Colorado, andCase Western Reserve University (1966-1983), with special appointments toUniversity of Wisconsin,University of Richmond, andthe College of William and Mary.
During his career, Wyatt-Brown wrote ten books, and more than 90 articles, forewords, and essays, and nearly 150 book reviews and essay reviews. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board forOhio History, the scholarly journal of the Ohio Historical Society, 1978-1986; and was series editor of the Louisiana State Press'Southern Biography Series. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (1994), theSt. George Tucker Society (1998–99), and theSouthern Historical Association (2000–01).
At the time of his death, he was writingHonor and America's Wars: From the Revolution to Iraq.[2] In 1983 Wyatt-Brown was a history finalist for theAmerican Book Award and thePulitzer Prize for his best-known work,Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982), described as a study of the "meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites -- both slaveholders and non-slaveholders -- applied it to their lives."[3]
In 1962 he married Anne Jewett Marbury, whom he met at Johns Hopkins. They have two daughters, Laura and Natalie.[1]
Wyatt-Brown died on November 5, 2012.[4]
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