
Ben Wynne
Professor
History - Anthropology - Philosophy
Area(s) of Expertise:
History of American South | Antebellum American History | American music history | Civil War history
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Author and historian Ben Wynne serves as a professor of history at the University of North Georgia. He is the author of several works on the American South, including "Something in the Water: A History of Music in Macon, Georgia, 1823-1980" (Mercer University Press, 2021), "The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry Stuart Foote" (LSU Press, 2018), and "In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and the Roots of American Music" (LSU Press, 2014). He edited and annotated "The Personal Observations of a Man of Intelligence: Notes of a Tour in North America in 1861," by Sir James Fergusson (The True Bill Press, 2009). He also has written introductions for several works in the Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading history series.