Dan Carter

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Dan T. Carter (17 June 1940 - )

Carter earned his B.A. from the from the University of Southern California (1962), his masters from the University of Wisconsin (1964), and his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1967).

He taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he helped the university cultivate a Southern history program from 1974 until the summer of 2000, when he accepted a position at the University of South Carolina, retiring in June of 2007 from their history department.

A historian, his books are about the law, nationalism, racism, and regionalism, and include

• Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (1969 - won the

Bancroft Prize in History, the Jules Landry Prize, and the Anifield-Wolf Award in 1970)

• When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South,

1865-1867 (1985)

• Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism,

and the Transformation (1995)

• From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution (1996)

• Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (2007)

• When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 (1985)

After retirement he moved to western North Carolina, where he is a member of the Unitarian Universalists of Transylvania County, North Carolina. Also, he serves on the board of the Western North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union and is an active participator in the local and state Democratic Party.

Carter is author of "Forgotten Story of America's White-only Towns" in UU World (Winter, 2007).

He has been a scriptwriter, host, on-camera commentator, and consultant on more than twenty historical documentaries. In 2000, he received an Emmy for researching the PBS/WGBH film George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire.