William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian and the William Umstead Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarship focuses on the history of the American South and the ways white and Black communities have shaped public memory since the Civil War. Brundage’s research examines how monuments, commemorations, and public narratives have influenced understandings of race, violence, and regional identity. He is the author and editor of several books on Southern history and historical memory, including *The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory* and *Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930*. His work contributes to the study of memory, race relations, and public history in the United States.