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Dan T. Carter

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Dan T. Carter
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OccupationHistorian

Dan T. Carteris an Americanhistorian.

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Carter graduated fromUniversity of South Carolina,University of Wisconsin,andUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at theUniversity of Maryland,and theUniversity of Wisconsin.[1] He was Kenan University Professor atEmory University,[2]and Educational Foundation Professor atUniversity of South Carolina,retiring in 2007. In 2009, he was the Dow Research Professor at the Roosevelt Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands.[3]He was president of theSouthern Historical Association.

In his 1991 article forThe New York Times,"The Transformation of a Klansman", regarding the true identity of authorAsa Earl Carter(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.[4][5][6]

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Works

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References

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  1. ^"University South Caroliniana Society - University Libraries | University of South Carolina".sc.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 2019-09-18.Retrieved2019-08-09.
  2. ^"What Would Mr. Gingrich Have Said? - Part 1 of Dan T. Carter on the films of Frank Capra".www.albany.edu.
  3. ^"Cas.sc.edu".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-06-12.Retrieved2010-01-15.
  4. ^Carter, Dan T. (October 4, 1991)."Opinion | The Transformation of a Klansman".The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
  5. ^"Salon.com Books | The education of Little Fraud".February 10, 2003. Archived fromthe originalon February 10, 2003.
  6. ^Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination, Shari M. Huhndorf, Cornell University Press, 2001, p.131
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