Editor's note: A photo of Carter is available. Carter, who is in England, can be reached on Friday, Sept. 7, from noon - 1 p.m. EST. Call Peggy Binette, USC Media Relations at 803-777-5400 to arrange an interview.

Dr. Dan T. Carter, the University of South Carolina's Educational Foundation Professor of History, won an Emmy Wednesday, Sept. 5, for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft as a researcher for PBS' "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire," part of the network's The American Experience series. The other nominees in the category include researchers for CBS Evening News, HBO, Dateline NBC Cinemax Reel Life.

The honor marks the first time a historian has won an Emmy.

"George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire," selected by the Writers Guild of America for best documentary of the year 2000, also garnered an Emmy nomination for best documentary script writing. The documentary was based on Carter's biography, "Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics" (1995).

The 22nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards was held Sept. 5 in Los Angeles.

One of the nation's most celebrated U.S. and Southern historians, Carter, a USC alumnus, joined USC's history faculty in 2000. He previously taught at Emory University.