Daniel S. Chard

Dr. Daniel S. Chard writes about social movements, power, and political violence. His book, Nixon’s War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism, will be published in September 2021 by the University of North Carolina Press (Justice, Power, and Politics series). He is co-editor of Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018), and his writing has appeared in Jacobin, The Washington Post, Radical History Review, and The Sixties, among others.

Dr. Chard is a Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Western Washington University, where he teaches courses on America since 1865, the History of the Pacific Northwest, the United States and International Terrorism, and the United States in the Cold War. Daniel earned a PhD in history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2016.