Dan T. Carter

Dan T. Carter (born Florence County, South Carolina) is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin. He was Kenan University Professor at Emory University, and Educational Foundation Professor at University of South Carolina, retiring in 2007. In 2009, he was the Dow Research Professor at the Roosevelt Center in Middelburg the Netherlands.

He was president of the Southern Historical Association.

Awards

• 1970 Bancroft Prize
• 1986 Avery O. Craven Award

Works

• "Part 1: What Would Mr. Gingrich Have Said?", The Journal for Multi-Media History, 1999
• "Reflections of a Reconstructed White Southerner". Historians and race: autobiography and the writing of history. Indiana University Press. 1996. ISBN 9780253211019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Carter, Dan T. (October 4, 1991). "The Transformation of a Klansman". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2010.

• Scottsboro: a Tragedy of the American South. LSU Press. 1979. ISBN 9780807104989.
• When the War Was Over: the Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867. LSU Press. 1985. ISBN 9780807112045.
• The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. LSU Press. 2000. ISBN 9780807125977.
• From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. LSU Press. 1999. ISBN 9780807123669.

Forewords

• Amory D. Mayo (1978). Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South. Introduction Dan T. Carter, Amy Friedlander. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807125229.
• Eugene N. Zeigler (2008). When conscience and power meet: a memoir. Foreword= Dan T. Carter. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570037443.

External links

• "The Solid South?", NOW, PBS, 1.30.04
• "Invisible Legacy", Emory Magazine, John D. Thomas, Spring 1996