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. A historian is an individual who studies history and who writes on history. ... The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association is an organization of historians focusing on American history. ... The American Historical Association (AHA) is a society of historians and teachers of history founded in 1884 and incorporated by the United States Congress in 1889. ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... “Stanford” redirects here. ...

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. The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Slave redirects here. ...

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

1. ^ "American Slavery", Peter Kolchin