Thomas J. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. Brown earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984 and a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization, also from Harvard, in 1995. His first book was a biography of Dorothea Dix. His research on Civil War monuments has produced a variety of spin-off publications, including The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: An Introduction with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004). He has also edited volumes on the Massachusetts 54th and on Reconstruction. Brown is a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians.