Carter L. Davis

Here's a list of some of the books Carter has written and some of the things an enterprising Changeling (or mortal) might find in them:

• Nostalgia and Depression, 1995. In this book, Carter's thesis is that pining for the past is a form of self-image problem that is brought about by not really evaluating the present day in the same way as we evaluate history. His bold presentation of the idea that the world today is better than it has been at any time in the past and his harsh attacks on pessimists of all varieties was controversial and electrified the academic world. It also earned him a spot as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Intriguing People Of 1995", though nobody remembers this anymore. Ah, fame is fleeting.
• The Good Old Days: Fabricating the Fifties, 1997. This book is more obviously academic, stuffed full of footnotes and primary sources, and demolishes the myth that the 1950s were somehow a sweet and perfect time in American history by tracing the curve of hatred, racism, apathy and corruption that traced over the decade. Fewer people have read this book and he received less recognition for it.

The actor who I most often envision playing him is Hugh Grant. Interspersed with the history links at the bottom of the page are pictures of Grant that I think look most like Carter. For your information, these links are more or less duplicates of the ones on Jason's History Link page.

Nostalgia and Depression made him a minor celebrity for a little while and got him on the talk show circuit for a brief time. Here's a picture of him on Larry King Live.

Historical Photographs and Galleries
• On The Stump: Theodore Roosevelt in Stereographs.
• Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame, 1860-1910.
• The Gallery of the Open Frontier.
• The Library of Congress Collection of Civil War Photographs.

• Archiving Early America.
• Montcalm and Wolfe. The French and Indian War.
• The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency.
• The Thomas Paine National Historical Association.
• The Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia.
• Loyalist and British Music of the Revolution.
• The David Library of the American Revolution.
• Friends of the Saratoga Battlefield.
  
  In this picture, Carter gets himself worked up over something. Being a satyr, Carter at least to some degree embodies passion, which means that controversy stirs him to great emotion, and unfortunately for people who get into controversies with him, Carter is also very, very intelligent in his chosen fields, so that opinions which he holds dear enough to really argue about are usually extremely-well-thought out and hard to refute. Kithain in particular get very uncomfortable when they start to attack his view of history - Carter knows their arguments, he's been over them before, and he has a myriad of rhetorical weapons at his disposal with which to remove them.
  Nineteenth Century America
• The City Transformed; Railroads and Their Influence on the Growth of Chicago in the 1850s.
• The Age of Imperialism.
• Anti-Imperialism in the United States (1898-1935).
• Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in the Nineteenth Century.
• The US Camel Corps.
• Antebellum Richmond Overview.
• The Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
• Sentenaryo/Centennial: A Collaborative Exploration of the Cultural and Political Impacts of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War.
• The Valley of the Shadow Project: Two towns in the Civil War.
• Battle Flags of the Confederacy.
• Civil War Documents Archive.
• Civil War Poetry and Music.
• Abraham Lincoln Online.
• The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
• Civil War Rosters and Military Sources.
• A Slave's Story, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, June 1857.
• The Emancipation Proclamation, a favorite of Carter's.
  
• Slavery Narratives.
• An Analysis of the Fugitive Slave Law.
• The History of Slavery In The Atlantic Museum.
• An Interview with Fugitive Slaves.
• Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library at Duke University.
• The Underground Railroad Commemoration Project.
• The Underground Railroad in Rochestor, New York.
• Walking the Underground Railroad.
• The Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center.
  

• 1933, an overview of events.
• To War Or Not To War, an examination of various nations' reasons for entering World War II.
• Flapper Culture and Style: Louise Brooks and the Jazz Age.
• The Jazz Singer.
• The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918.
• An Overview of Women's Suffrage.
• Selected Documents of Prohibition.
• Al Capone and the Income Tax Law.
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
• The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925 - July 25, 1925.
• Flapper Station, the introduction to the Culture of the Roaring Twenties.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• The Tax History Project.
• The New Deal Network.
• Senator Joseph McCarthy.
• The McCarthy Record.
• Senator Joseph McCarthy Multimedia.
• The Atomic Duty of Private Bill Bires.
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion.
• 14 Days In October, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Lyndon B. Johnson tapes stored in RealAudio format.
• John F. Kennedy site.
• The JFK Collection of Evelyn Lincoln.
• Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis
• The National Civil Rights Museum.
• Profile of Medgar Evers.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Papers.
• Wars for Vietnam. An overview from 1945-1975.
• Korean War Documents.
• The Korean War Project.
• The West Virginia Coal Mine Wars 1920-1921.
• The Battle of Matewan, a labor war.
• Images from the US-Phillipine War.
• The Centennial of the Phillipine Revolution, and the US/Phillipine War.
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century.
• The WWI Documents Archive.
• The Treaty of Versailles
• WWI: Another Look.
• Trenches on the Web: World War I on the Web.
• New York World's Fair 1964/65.

• The Presidents of the United States.
• The National Security Archive at Georgetown University, containing both Cuban Missile Crisis informationa and nuclear policy information.
• The History Place.
• The History Audio Archives including Voices of the Civil Rights Era.

Carter Logs

The Quest

• The pitch.
• Mail call.
• Setting out.