Charles Howard Carter (1927–1990) was a historian, researcher, author, and professor of History at

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from 1963 to 1990. Carter was born in Baker, Oregon. He studied at Willamette University and the University of Chicago, and ultimately got his degrees from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

under Garrett Mattingly, whose

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he later edited. He graduated B.S. (1957), M.A. (1958), and Ph.D. (1961). He instigated a project to microfilm diplomatic documents from Western Europe for the period 1590-1635 which provided shared access to materials from the British Library, the

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, the National Archives of Belgium, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Archivo General de Simancas. Before becoming a professor at Tulane, Carter taught at Long Island University and the

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. At the time of his death, Carter was working on a monograph on the relationship between

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and the Spanish ambassador Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar. His papers are kept in the Special Collections of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the

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.Charles H. Carter Collection in Diplomatic History, Manuscripts 1960-1990
. Accessed 9 November 2015.

Works

* ''The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598–1625'' (1964) * ''The Western European Powers, 1500–1700'' (1971) * editor: ''From the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation: Essays in Honor of Garrett Mattingly'' (1965)

References

1927 births 1990 deaths Tulane University faculty Columbia University alumni People from Baker City, Oregon {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Charles