Dan T. Carter is an American historian.

Carter graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967. He taught at the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin.^[1] He was Kenan University Professor at Emory University,^[2] 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.^[3] He was president of the Southern Historical Association.

In his 1991 article for The New York Times, "The Transformation of a Klansman", regarding the true identity of author Asa 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]

• 1970 Bancroft Prize
• 1986 Avery O. Craven Award

• "Part 1: What Would Mr. Gingrich Have Said?", The Journal for Multi-Media History, 1999
• Paul Alan Cimbala; Robert F. Himmelberg, eds. (1996). "Reflections of a Reconstructed White Southerner". Historians and race: autobiography and the writing of history. Indiana University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-253-21101-9.
• Carter, Dan T. (October 4, 1991). "The Transformation of a Klansman". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
• Scottsboro: a Tragedy of the American South. LSU Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8071-0498-9.
• When the War Was Over: the Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867. LSU Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8071-1204-5.
• The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. LSU Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8071-2597-7.
• From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994. LSU Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8071-2366-9.