Charles Howard Carter (1927–1990) was a historian, researcher, author, and professor of History at

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from 1963 to 1990. Carter was born in

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. He studied at Willamette University and the University of Chicago, and ultimately got his degrees from

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under

Garrett Mattingly Garrett Mattingly (May 6, 1900 – December 18, 1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for ''The Defeat of the Spanish Armada''. Early l ...

, whose

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he later edited. He graduated B.S. (1957), M.A. (1958), and Ph.D. (1961). He instigated a project to microfilm diplomatic documents from Western Europe for the period 1590-1635 which provided shared access to materials from

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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and the Archivo General de Simancas. Before becoming a professor at Tulane, Carter taught at

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and the

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. At the time of his death, Carter was working on a monograph on the relationship between

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and the Spanish ambassador

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. His papers are kept in the Special Collections of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the

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.Charles H. Carter Collection in Diplomatic History, Manuscripts 1960-1990
. Accessed 9 November 2015.

Works

* ''The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598–1625'' (1964) * ''The Western European Powers, 1500–1700'' (1971) * editor: ''From the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation: Essays in Honor of Garrett Mattingly'' (1965)

References

1927 births 1990 deaths Tulane University faculty Columbia University alumni People from Baker City, Oregon {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Charles