Charles C. Bolton is Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to that, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. From 1990 to 2000, Bolton was Director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi and also an Assistant and Associate Professor of History.

Bolton received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1982. After attending a year of law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he decided to return to the study of History and attended Duke University, where he received a MA degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1989. Bolton’s primary area of interest is U.S. History in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, more specifically the history of the U.S. South.

Poor Whites of the Antebellum South:  Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi (Duke University Press, 1994); The Confessions of Edward Isham:  A Poor White Life of the Old South, edited jointly with Scott Culclasure (University of Georgia Press 1998); The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), and With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education, edited jointly with Brian J. Daugherity (University of Arkansas Press, 2008). Bolton is currently working on a biography of William F. Winter, a longtime Mississippi politician who began his career as a state legislator in the 1940s and who also served as state tax collector, state treasurer, lieutenant governor, and eventually, governor of Mississippi.