Carter, Dan T.

Dan T. Carter (1940- ), American historian, was born in Florence, South Carolina. He graduated from University of South Carolina in 1962 and completed his graduate work in history at the University of Wisconsin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1967). He was appointed the Kenan University Professor at Emory University in 1970. In the fall of 2000 he was appointed the first Educational Foundation Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. The author and editor of more than 40 articles and seven works of history, Carter won the Bancroft Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for Scottsboro: a Tragedy of the American South (1970).