Dan T. Carter
Dan T. Carter was born in Florence, SC, and has received many accolades as a historian and writer. He earned his BA from the University of South Carolina, his MA from the University of Wisconsin, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina. His focus on twentieth-century United States politics pays special attention to the complex history of the post-Civil War American South. He has held posts at several institutions including the University of Maryland, the University of Wisconsin, a Fulbright at London’s Central Polytechnic, Cambridge University, and the University of Genoa. At Emory University, he was first appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History and then as the William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor. He was named the first Educational Foundation Professor of History at the University of South Carolina in 2000, which brought him full-circle back to South Carolina. He retired from this position in 2007 and moved to Brevard, NC.
In addition to over forty articles, Dan Carter’s publications include Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South; When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867; The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics; and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. Since his retirement from university teaching, he has written magazine articles and book introductions and has served as on-camera commentator for PBS documentaries The People vs. Leo Frank (2009), 1964 (2014), and Klansville USA (2014). He has also been involved in historical programming for CNN, including The Sixties, The Seventies, and 1968: The Year that Changed America.
Carter’s honors include his recognition as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and his receipt of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Bancroft Prize for Scottsboro. He won the Avery O. Craven Award and was twice awarded the Jules and Frances Landry Award for outstanding achievement in Southern studies. He holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Francis Marion University and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities. He also won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the James F. Sulzby Book Award for The Politics of Rage. Since his move to North Carolina, Carter has remained an active participant in state and local politics, and he continues to write and consult on historical projects.
In addition to over forty articles, Dan Carter’s publications include Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South; When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867; The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics; and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. Since his retirement from university teaching, he has written magazine articles and book introductions and has served as on-camera commentator for PBS documentaries The People vs. Leo Frank (2009), 1964 (2014), and Klansville USA (2014). He has also been involved in historical programming for CNN, including The Sixties, The Seventies, and 1968: The Year that Changed America.
Carter’s honors include his recognition as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and his receipt of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Bancroft Prize for Scottsboro. He won the Avery O. Craven Award and was twice awarded the Jules and Frances Landry Award for outstanding achievement in Southern studies. He holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Francis Marion University and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities. He also won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the James F. Sulzby Book Award for The Politics of Rage. Since his move to North Carolina, Carter has remained an active participant in state and local politics, and he continues to write and consult on historical projects.
