Dan T. Carter is an American

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Life

Carter graduated from University of South Carolina,

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, and

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at the

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, and the

. He was Kenan University Professor at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

, 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 The Southern Historical Association is a professional academic organization of historians focusing on the history of the Southern United States. It was organized on November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in Sou ...

. In his 1991 article for ''

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'', "The Transformation of a Klansman", regarding the true identity of author

Asa Earl Carter Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s racial segregation, segregationist speech writer, and later Western (genre), Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-Racial segregation in the United States, ...

(who wrote as Forrest Carter), Carter suggested that their shared Southern heritage might make the two men distant cousins; this suggestion has subsequently been put forward as fact in later publications.Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination, Shari M. Huhndorf, Cornell University Press, 2001, p.131

Awards

* 1970

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

* 1986

Avery O. Craven Award Avery may refer to: Business * Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles * Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems * Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail ...

Works

"Part 1: What Would Mr. Gingrich Have Said?", ''The Journal for Multi-Media History'', 1999
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References

External links

* * ttp://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3qd Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library University of South Carolina alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Emory University faculty University of South Carolina faculty Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of race relations Year of birth missing (living people) Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub