Carl N. Degler (born 1921), 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.
Career
In 1972, Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 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 which is a highly sought-after study of United States history. It is currently utilized in
various classrooms and study-chambers throughout the United States. It provides one view point of American history, and is often
considered an opposite to "A People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn.
In 1986 Degler was elected President of the American Historical Association. His presidential address, titled " In Pursuit of
an American History," can be found here: http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/cndegler.htm
Contentions
American slavery
Carl N. Degler has argued that racism existed before slavery, and that slavery was brought on by the racist sentiment inherent
in European settlers.[1]
His works
His works include:
- Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (1972)
- 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 Other South - Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century (2000)
For a full bibliography of Degler's work see http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/cndeglerbibliography.htm
References
- ^ "American Slavery", Peter Kolchin
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