Anna Koivusalo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki. This interview is based on her new book, The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion...
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Loyalism in the Age of Revolutions (#AHA19)
Matt Lakemacher of Woodland Middle School on Gurnee, IL is doing yeoman’s work from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago. Here is latest. Enjoy! (Read all of Matt’s posts here). –JF I wrote...
The Author’s Corner with Craig Bruce Smith
Craig Bruce Smith is Assistant Professor of History at William Woods University. This interview is based on his new book American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). JF: What led...
The Author's Corner with Robert Elder
Robert Elder is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University. This interview is based on his new book, The Sacred Mirror: Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790-1860 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). JF: What led...
Bertram Wyatt-Brown R.I.P.
Historians on Twitter are reporting that Bertram Wyatt-Brown, the great scholar of Southern honor culture, has passed away. For all of my central Pennsylvania readers, he was born in Harrisburg, PA in 1932. Wyatt-Brown is best known for his book...
Bertram Wyatt-Brown Festschrift on its Way
Randall Stephens, a student of the noted southern historian and author Bertram Wyatt-Brown, informs us of an upcoming Festschrift to honor Brown’s work. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt Brown is edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel...