Bertram Wyatt-Brown (March 19, 1932 – November 5, 2012) was a noted historian of the Southern United States.
[1] Wyatt-Brown was prepared at historic Saint James School in Maryland, then matriculated at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, earning his B.A.
He joined the Armed Services and served from 1953 to 1955, becoming a lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve.
Wyatt-Brown earned his Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins University in 1963, having worked under the supervision of C. Vann Woodward, the noted historian of the South.
[2] In 1983 Wyatt-Brown was a history finalist for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his best-known work, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982), described as a study of the "meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites -- both slaveholders and non-slaveholders -- applied it to their lives.