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Lecture on Lincoln's assassination March 16 4:55 p.m., March 1, 2006--Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, will speak at UD on Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the role of honor and romantic conservatism in John Wilkes Booth. The lecture will be held from 7:30-9 p.m., Thursday, March 16, in Bayard Sharp Hall. It is free and open to the public. Wyatt-Brown earned the bachelor's degree at the University of the South in 1953, bachelor's and master's degrees at King's College, Cambridge University, and his doctoral degree at the Johns Hopkins University in 1963 under the late C. Vann Woodward. His publications in history include Lewis Tappan and the War Against Slavery (1969, 1996); Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982); The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family (1994); The Literary Percys (1994); The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace and War (2001); and Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition (2003). He also coedited Virginia's Civil War (2004). The lecture is sponsored by the Department of History and the University Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events. For more information, call (302) 831-8413. |
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