ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author studies the Holocaust in 1967–1968, with a graduate directed-reading course on Nazi concentration camps. In 1999, he had the good fortune to succeed Christopher Browning at Pacific Lutheran University, when he was recruited to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author helps to develop by 2007 an endowed program in Holocaust studies, with an annual Holocaust conference, a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies, and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, which he held from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. During the author academic career, the profile and study of the Holocaust have grown from a marginal to a quite central place in our educational establishment and our culture. In the 1980s, the author spends six years giving statewide lectures for the Washington Commission for the Humanities (now Humanities Washington). The author audience sometimes included Holocaust deniers, and cars in the parking lots were sometimes leafleted with their claims.
