W. Fitzhugh Brundage
American historian
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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]
W. Fitzhugh Brundage | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Education | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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]
His 2026 book A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War describes the usage of prison camps for captured enemy soldiers during the American Civil War.[8] It has been described as the first comprehensive study of those prison camps since William B. Hesseltne's 1930 book Civil War Prisons.[8]
In A Fate Worse than Hell, Brundage writes that prisoners of war were incarcerated at unprecedented rates, made possible by technological advancements such as railroads.[8] The Union and Confederacy both did little to provide for the welfare of their prisoners, he argues, but the Confederacy was substantially more neglectful, and their death rates were higher: 16% for Union soliders in Confederate camps versus 12% for Confederate soldiers in Union camps.[8]
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.
- Booker T. Washington and Black Progress : Up from Slavery 100 Years Later. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. ISBN 0813026741. OCLC 52079706.
- 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
- A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War. W. W. Norton & Company. 2026. ISBN 978-0393541090.
