Charles C. Bolton Research Collection

Dr. Charles C. Bolton is a native of Picayune, Mississippi and received his undergraduate degree in history from The University of Southern Mississippi. After his bachelor’s degree, Dr. Bolton received his M.A and Ph.D. in history from Duke University. Dr. Bolton was the fourth director of the Mississippi Oral History Program at The University of Southern Mississippi and also served as history professor during his time at the university (1990-2005). Dr. Bolton’s research interests include Southern history in the United States, race, politics, and twentieth-century U.S. history. Some of Dr. Bolton’s publications include:Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi,The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980, With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, and William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography. Dr. Bolton has been teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2005, and was appointed the Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences in 2017.