W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his present work on torture in American history. Brundage has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.

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2006 Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association

Co-Winner, 2006 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, University of Georgia Libraries, DeKalb County Public Library/Georgia Center for the Book, and Piedmont College

Finalist, 2006 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Finalist, 2006 National Council on Public History Book Award

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