Dan T. Carter, Educational Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina and former president of the Southern Historical Association, is the author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History; From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994; and When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South, winner of the Avery O. Craven Award.