Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His most recent books are The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War and the forthcoming Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition. (October 2002)

From the Review

October 24, 2002: Anatomy of a Murder

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr.

Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg

November 6, 1997: America's Holy War

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson

June 6, 1996: Making It New (letter)

May 9, 1996: Home Fires

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

October 10, 1991: The South Against Itself

The Road to Disunion: Vol. I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 by William W. Freehling

February 26, 1987: Southern Gentleman

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter annotated with the assistance of Susan W. Walker) (with "The Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin, 1822–1890," edited and, by Theodore Rosengarten

March 13, 1986: The Sound and the Fury

Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History by C. Vann Woodward

Books by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (1994)
The Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination (1994)
Honor and Violence in the Old South (1986)
Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners (1985)
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982)
The American People in the Antebellum South (1973)
Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery (1969)