Carl Neumann Degler

Carl Neumann Degler (born 6 Feb 1921 in Orange, N.J.) is an American historian. Degler is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. He is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University.^[1]

Career

In 1972, Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Neither Black nor White, a work comparing slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States. He wrote Out of Our Past, a study of United States history. It is currently used in various classrooms and study-chambers throughout the United States, along with Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States; they are considered as presenting conflicting viewpoints and thus optimal for presenting a complete view of American history. In 1986 Degler was elected President of the American Historical Association.

Bibliography

Degler's works include:^[2]

• Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America (1959)
• Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (1972)
• The Other South - Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century (1974)
• Place Over Time: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness, (1977)
• At Odds : Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1981)
• In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (1991)
• The Third American Revolution (1959)

References

External links

• "In Pursuit of an American History" 1986 AHA Presidential Address
• The Pulitzer Prizes