词条 | Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
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| name = | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = March 19, 1932 | birth_place = Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = November 5, 2012 | death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = The University of the South King's College, Cambridge | employer = | occupation = Historian | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} Bertram Wyatt-Brown (March 19, 1932 – November 5, 2012) was a noted historian of the Southern United States. He was the Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he taught from 1983-2004; he also taught at Case 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 its twentieth-century authors William Alexander Percy and Walker Percy. Early life and educationBorn in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wyatt-Brown was the son of Laura H. and Hunter Wyatt-Brown, an Episcopal priest who became a bishop.[1] Wyatt-Brown was prepared at historic Saint James School in Maryland, then matriculated at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, earning his B.A. in 1953. He joined the Armed Services and served from 1953 to 1955, becoming a lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve.[1] After his military service, he received a second B.A. degree from King's College at Cambridge University in 1957. Wyatt-Brown earned his Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins University in 1963, having worked under the supervision of C. Vann Woodward, the noted historian of the South. CareerWyatt-Brown was the Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he taught from 1983-2004, and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at Colorado State University, University of Colorado, and Case Western Reserve University (1966-1983), with special appointments to University of Wisconsin, University of Richmond, and the 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 for Ohio 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), the St. George Tucker Society (1998–99), and the Southern Historical Association (2000–01). At the time of his death, he was writing Honor and America's Wars: From the Revolution to Iraq.[1] In 1983 Wyatt-Brown was a history finalist for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer 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."[2] Personal life and deathIn 1962 he married Anne Jewett Marbury, whom he met at Johns Hopkins. They have two daughters, Laura and Natalie.[3] Wyatt-Brown died on November 5, 2012.[4] Works
References1. ^"Bertram Wyatt-Brown" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531191911/http://www.history.ufl.edu/new/directory/faculty_profiles/em/wyattbrown.html |date=May 31, 2010 }}, University of Florida 2. ^This description is taken from the abridged version of the study, published by Oxford University Press in 1986 under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. 3. ^1 2 3 Alan Jalowitz, "Bertram Wyatt-Brown" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326152703/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Wyatt-Brown__Bertram.html |date=2012-03-26 }}, Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2006, accessed 5 September 2011 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-11/news/bs-md-ob-bertram-wyatt-brown-20121109_1_richard-j-milbauer-professor-bertram-wyatt-brown-american-history |title=Bertram Wyatt-Brown, acclaimed historian - Baltimore Sun |publisher=Articles.baltimoresun.com |date=2012-11-11 |accessdate=2012-11-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614105459/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-11/news/bs-md-ob-bertram-wyatt-brown-20121109_1_richard-j-milbauer-professor-bertram-wyatt-brown-american-history |archivedate=2013-06-14 |df= }} Further reading
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