Professor of History Charles J. Holden Published in Washington Post

Professor of History Charles J. Holden was published in The Washington Post on June 27. The historical perspective article is titled "Some GOP rhetoric is similar to that of American Nazis from the 1970s."

A historian whose research interests span American history from the Civil War Era through the current day, Holden's books include "In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina" (Univ, of South Carolina Press, 2002) and "The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC" (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2011). He is also a co-author of "Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origin of Donald Trump's America" with Z. Messitte and J. Podair (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2019).