Professor of History
Biography
Chuck Holden has taught at SMCM since 1999. His books include: In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina (2002) and The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC (2011). He is also a co-author on Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origin of Donald Trump's America (2019). His op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Charlotte Observer, the Des Moines Register. and the History News Network.
Areas of Research Specialization
- 19th and 20th Century U.S. History
- History of American South
- History of Academic Freedom
Areas of Teaching Specialization
- 19th and 20th U.S. History
- The Great Depression and New Deal
- The Civil War Era
External Affiliations
Education
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B.S. in Business Administration at St. John's University (MN), 1985
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M.A. in History at Creighton University, 1990
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Ph.D. in United States History at Penn State University, 1997
Spotlight
- The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC
This book examines the emergence of the University of North Carolina as a modern southern university. It focuses especially on the university's embrace of academic freedom as an institutional value.
- In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatism in Post-Civil War South Carolina
This book examines the persistence of a southern conservative ideological tradition following defeat in the Civil War. It features intellectual biographies of four South Carolinians and covers the 1830s through the 1930s.