Robert Brent Toplin was professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and at Denison University and taught at the University of Virginia after retirement from full-time teaching. Toplin has published 11 books, more than 150 articles, and has appeared frequently as a commentator on history in nationally broadcast television and radio programs. He served as principal creator of historical dramas broadcast nationally on PBS, the Disney Channel, and Starz and is the author of History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past (1996) and editor of Ken Burns’s The Civil War: Historians Respond (1996). Toplin received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Ford Foundation, and other institutions. He was a member of the Perspectives editorial board, contributing editor for film and media, and editor of the long-running series Masters at the Movies.
Robert Brent Toplin
