Douglas M. Charles
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Douglas M. Charles is currently lecturer in history at Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in modern American history and is the author of numerous articles on the history of the FBI and American intelligence. He is also the author of the book J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007). ISBN 978-0-8142-1061-1
Charles was educated at the Pennsylvania State University, earning a B.A. in 1995. He then took an M.A. in 1997 at Marquette University where he studied with FBI historian Athan Theoharis. He took his Ph.D. in history at the University of Edinburgh studying with historians Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and David Stafford.
Charles previously taught as a tutor of history at the University of Edinburgh and at Marietta College in Ohio.
[edit] Published Works
- J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007).
- “‘Before the Colonel Arrived’: Hoover, Donovan, Roosevelt, and the Origins of American Central Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security 20 (Summer 2005): 225-237.
- “Informing FDR: FBI Political Surveillance and the Isolationist–Interventionist Foreign Policy Debate, 1939-1945,” Diplomatic History 24 (Spring 2000): 211-232.
–published afterwards in Walter Hixson, ed., The American Experience in World War II: Isolationists and Internationalists, the Battle over Interventions, vol. 2 (New York: Routledge, 2002).
- “FBI Political Surveillance and the Charles Lindbergh Investigation, 1939-1944,” The Historian 59 (Summer 1997): 831-847, with John P. Rossi.
–published afterwards in Walter Hixson, ed., The American Experience in World War II: Isolationists and Internationalists, the Battle over Interventions, vol. 2 (New York: Routledge, 2002).
- “Was Gonzales’s Historical Defense of [NSA] Eavesdropping Convincing?” Published online with History News Network, 20 February 2006.
- “Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and FBI Political Surveillance,” USA Today: The Magazine of the American Scene 128 (September 1999): 74-76.
- “American, British, and Canadian Intelligence Links: A Critical Annotated Bibliography,” Intelligence and National Security 15 (Summer 2000): 259-269.
