Education
He studied at Columbia University under Garrett Mattingly, whose Festschrift he later edited. He graduated Bachelor of Surgery (1957), Master of Arts (1958), and Doctor of Philosophy (1961).
He studied at Columbia University under Garrett Mattingly, whose Festschrift he later edited. He graduated Bachelor of Surgery (1957), Master of Arts (1958), and Doctor of Philosophy (1961).
He instigated a project to microfilm diplomatic documents from Western Europe for the period 1590-1635 which provided shared access to materials from the British Library, the Public Record Office, the National Archives of Belgium, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Archivo General de Simancas. At the time of his death, Carter was working on a monograph on the relationship between James VI and I and the Spanish ambassador Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar. His papers are kept in the Special Collections of the Milton South. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University.