词条 | Carl Neumann Degler |
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Early life and educationDegler was born New Jersey. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. He earned a BA in history from Upsala College, and master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University.[2] CareerDegler taught history at Vassar College for 16 years (1952–1968). In 1968 he joined the Stanford faculty and taught there for the rest of his career, retiring as Emeritus Professor in 1990. In 1986 Degler was elected President of the American Historical Association. He also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.[2] In 1972 Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Neither Black nor White (1971), a work comparing slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States. He earlier wrote Out of Our Past (1959), a study of United States history that is currently used in high school and college classrooms and study chambers throughout the United States. He has been described as "a scholarly champion of the common man and woman in American history" and as "a founding feminist". He was one of only two male founding members of the National Organization for Women.[2] In 1973-1974 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Personal lifeDegler was married to Catherine Grady, whom he met at Columbia, for nearly 50 years until her death. He was married to Teresa Baker Degler for the last 14 years of his life. He had two children and four grandchildren. He died in Palo Alto, California on December 27, 2014 at the age of 93.[2] BibliographyDegler's works include:[3]
References1. ^Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners, p. 309. Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press. {{ISBN|1-57356-111-8}}. 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/obit-carl-degler-010715.html|title=Stanford Pulitzer Prize-winning historian dies at 93|last=Parker|first=Clifton B.|date=January 7, 2015|work=Stanford Report|accessdate=7 January 2015}} 3. ^http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/cndeglerbibliography.htm External links
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