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 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 to 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 twentieth-century authors William Alexander Percy and Walker Percy.