Carl N. Degler

Carl N. Degler (1921-2014) was an American historian renowned for his work on race relations, slavery, and women's history, serving as Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University after teaching at Vassar and Stanford. His most notable work, Neither Black nor White (1971), which compared slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1972, along with the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes; other key books include Out of Our Past (1959) and At Odds (1981). A founding member of the National Organization for Women and president of the American Historical Association (1986), he was a scholarly champion of the oppressed in American history. Pulitzer.org