Dr. John C. “Chuck” Chalberg is a native Minnesotan who currently teaches American history at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota.  He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Minnesota.  His undergraduate degree (in history and economics) was from Regis College (now University) in Denver, CO.

As a community college teacher, Chalberg is, by definition, an American history generalist.  His academic training was in American and European diplomatic history.  And while he enjoys teaching topics concerning the history of American foreign policy, he is also well-versed (and, he hopes, reasonably well-read) on the American Revolution, the Civil War, Progressivism, and the early Cold War period.

Chalberg has written a biography of celebrity anarchist Emma Goldman for the Library of American biography.  He has also written a dual biography of baseball’s Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson.  Over the years he has served as the consulting editor of an “Opposing Viewpoints” series on American history published by Greenhaven Press.  He is alone responsible for a volume on “American Isolationism” in this series.  Most recently, he wrote a history of Bloomington, Minnesota, as part of the city’s sesquicentennial.

In addition, he has written occasional reviews and essays for such publications as National Review, Chronicles, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The American Scholar, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Journal of Sport History Touchstone, Crisis, as well as various newspapers.