Like Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States, Degler's work presented alternative views on conventional interpretations of American history. history that is still used in many Advanced Placement high school American history classes. His primary interests included the history of the American South, comparative race relations in Brazil and the United States, the role of women in American society, and the influence of Darwinian ideas in American culture.ĭegler wrote Out of Our Past, a study of U.S. In his career, Degler broke new ground in the study of groups once largely ignored, especially ethnic minorities, the poor and women. He taught and researched at Stanford University from 1968 until his retirement in 1990. In 1972, he won 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 was 93.ĭegler was the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Degler, a scholarly champion of the common man and woman in American history, passed away from natural causes on Dec.
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