W. Fitzhugh Brundage

William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian, and William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at University of North Carolina.^[1] His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War.^[2]

Early life

Brundage graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in 1984,^[3] and from Harvard University with an MA and Ph.D., in 1988.^[4]

Career

Brundage taught at Queen's University at Kingston, and University of Florida.^[3] He teaches at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the History department.^[4]

Brundage is the author and editor of a number of books. He won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1994 for Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930.^[5]

He is a Guggenheim Fellow.^[6][7]

Works

• Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930. University of Illinois Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-252-06345-9.
• A Socialist Utopia in the New South: the Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901. University of Illinois Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-252-06548-4.
• Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. UNC Press Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8078-4636-0.
• Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. UNC Press Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-4886-9.
• The Southern Past: a Clash of Race and Memory. Harvard University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-674-01876-1.
• Editor (2003). Booker T. Washington and Black Progress : Up from Slavery 100 Years Later. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0813026741. OCLC 52079706. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
• Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (2018). Civilizing Torture : An American Tradition. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780674737662. OCLC 1028589333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Introduction to Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, Louisiana State University Press, 2017

References

External links

• Official website
• UNC website
• Mississippi Department of Archives and History

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