Carl N Degler
Biographic Data
| ID | 224804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl N Degler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl N |
| FAMILY NAME | Degler |
| SIGNATURE | DEGLER C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 102 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 102 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States
In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether a…
Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber
Journal Article Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber. By Linda K. Kerber. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 333 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2348-1. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4654-6) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, Ju…
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.Janet Farrell Brodie
Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures
Five Pulitzer Prize-winning historians--Carl Degler, James McPherson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., David Brion Davis, and Robert Bruce--join eminent historian Kenneth Stampp and editor Boritt to offer a new understanding of that revolutionary epoch in American history, and of the role of the leader who helped transform the nation. All but one essay published here for the first time. 20 halftones
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview
The Creationists
Journal Article The Creationists. By Ronald L. Numbers. (New York: Knopf, 1992. xviii, 458 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-679-40104-0.) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1509–1510, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080706 Published: 01 March 1994
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought
In Search of Human Nature
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought
The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
Journal Article The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars. By Elazar Barkan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv + 381 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-52139193-8.) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1…
Biology is Destiny, Once Again
CARL DEGLER'S IN SEARCH oFHUMANNATURE CAN BE READ IN AT LEAST two different ways. On the one hand, the table of contents and the sources suggest that this is a work with a relatively unambiguous premise: explore the ways in which scientists in the first half of the twentieth century wrested from the biological sciences the prerogative of defining what it means be and demonstrate why, in the end, some scholars have returned biological explanations…
In search of human nature: Decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought
Of Genes and Men
Carl Degler has achieved a career of rare distinction and authority. As the winner of a Pulitzer Prize, past president of both the OAH and the AHA, and a man known for his tolerance and good sense, when Degler speaks, to adapt a once catchy advertising slogan, people listen. Perhaps as important is the fact that Degler has a great nose -a superior sense of where the action is and an acute feel for the significant historical problem. In the past, …
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought
Journal Article In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. By Carl N. Degler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 400 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-506380-5.) Get access In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. By Degler Carl N.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 400 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-506380-5.) Fred Matthews Fred Matthews Eme…
The Road to Disunion. Vol I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Slavery: History and Historians
This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of ?the peculiar institution.? It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture. And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World…
In search of human nature: The decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought
Now, with In Search of Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred years. What kind of animal is homo sapiens and how did we come to be this way? In this wide ranging history, Carl Degler traces our attempts over the last century to answer t…
Black Africans and Native Americans: Color, Race and Caste in the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
What Crisis, Jon
Journal Article What Crisis, Jon? Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 467–470, https://doi.org/10.2307/1907982 Published: 01 September 1989
That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profesison
Journal Article That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. By Peter Novick. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii + 648 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $15.95.) Get access Carl Degler Carl Degler Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 892–894, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936434 Pub…
Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham
Reflections on History and Historians . Theodore S. Hamerow
In search of human nature: The decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought
Now, with In Search of Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred years. What kind of animal is homo sapiens and how did we come to be this way? In this wide ranging history, Carl Degler traces our attempts over the last century to answer t…
Neither Black nor White: Slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States
The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
American Political Parties and the Rise of the City: An Interpretation
Journal Article American Political Parties and the Rise of the City: An Interpretation Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler professor of history Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 1964, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917933 Published: 01 June 1964
Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice
Over a century ago, Tocqueville named slavery as the source of the American prejudice against the Negro. Contrary to the situation in antiquity, he remarked: 'Among the moderns the abstract and transient fact of slavery is fatally united with the physical and permanent fact of color.' Furthermore, he wrote, though 'slavery recedes' in some portions of the United States, 'the prejudice to which it has given birth is immovable'. More modern observe…
Remaking American History
Journal Article Remaking American History Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler professor of history Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 7–25, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900438 Published: 01 June 1980
The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
Journal Article The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars. By Elazar Barkan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv + 381 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-52139193-8.) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Stanford University, Stanford, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1…
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: The South, the North, and the Nation
The Locofocos: Urban “Agrarians”
Most students of Jacksonian America are familiar with the Locofocos of New York through the interesting and informative history of the party which its secretary, Fitzwilliam Byrdsall, published in 1842. But Byrdsall himself was primarily interested in the antimonopoly features of his party's program, and therefore his history all but ignores the even more significant monetary policy of the Locofocos. At the present time in historical writing, it …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the Theory and Practice of Feminism
WHEN Charlotte Perkins Gilman' published Women and Economics in 1898, Feminist movement in America gained an advocate of uncommon intellectual power and insight. Quickly acclaimed on both sides of Atlantic for having written the most significant utterance on women's question since Mill,2 she became idol of radical feminists and was later judged the most original and challenging mind which woman [sic] movement produced.3 Despite this recognition o…
Slavery: History and Historians
This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of ?the peculiar institution.? It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture. And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World…
Why Historians Change Their Minds
Research Article| May 01 1976 Why Historians Change Their Minds Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1976) 45 (2): 167–184. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638493 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Slavery in Brazil and the United States: An Essay in Comparative History
Bandeirantes and Pioneers
Comparative History: An Essay Review
Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries
What Crisis, Jon
Journal Article What Crisis, Jon? Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 467–470, https://doi.org/10.2307/1907982 Published: 01 September 1989
Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas: Comparative Notes on Their Nature and Nexus
Journal Article Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas: Comparative Notes on Their Nature and Nexus. By H. Hoetink. (New York: Harper & Row, 1973. viii + 232 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $13.50.) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 4, March 1975, Pages 1111–1112, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890682…
The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century. By Carl N. Degler. (New York: Harper and Row, 1974. 392 pp. Notes and index. $10.00.) Get access Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 798–799, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899975 Published: 01 Decembe…
A New Effort to Rewrite the Constitution
FOR SEVERAL REASONS the rewriting of history is a never-ending process: new evidence is uncovered; fresh interpretations are advanced and defended; changing conditions require new information from the past. But the continuous revision of written history does not permit any and all reinterpretations and rewritings to be equally acceptable. To the unacceptable category must be assigned a new, massive study of American constitutional history, Willia…
The Locofocos: Urban “Agrarians”
Most students of Jacksonian America are familiar with the Locofocos of New York through the interesting and informative history of the party which its secretary, Fitzwilliam Byrdsall, published in 1842. But Byrdsall himself was primarily interested in the antimonopoly features of his party's program, and therefore his history all but ignores the even more significant monetary policy of the Locofocos. At the present time in historical writing, it …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the Theory and Practice of Feminism
WHEN Charlotte Perkins Gilman' published Women and Economics in 1898, Feminist movement in America gained an advocate of uncommon intellectual power and insight. Quickly acclaimed on both sides of Atlantic for having written the most significant utterance on women's question since Mill,2 she became idol of radical feminists and was later judged the most original and challenging mind which woman [sic] movement produced.3 Despite this recognition o…
Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America
Journal Article Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America. By Carl N. Degler. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. xviii + 484 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $6.00.) Get access Philip F. Detweiler Philip F. Detweiler Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 1, June 1959, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892425 Publish…
Starr on Slavery
Chester G. Starr's recent article in the Journal (March 1958), "An Overdose of Slavery," does a fine job of showing that people other than slaves worked in antiquity, but it leaves hanging the crucial question regarding the place of slavery in the economy of the ancient world. Moreover, Starr enters a strong plea against comparing ancient and modern slavery. These two aspects of his paper I think merit some further comment
Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice
Over a century ago, Tocqueville named slavery as the source of the American prejudice against the Negro. Contrary to the situation in antiquity, he remarked: 'Among the moderns the abstract and transient fact of slavery is fatally united with the physical and permanent fact of color.' Furthermore, he wrote, though 'slavery recedes' in some portions of the United States, 'the prejudice to which it has given birth is immovable'. More modern observe…
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States
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Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants
Journal Article Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants. By Charles McCool Snyder. (New York: Vantage Press, 1962. 166 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $3.95.) Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 4, March 1963, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895777 Published: 01 March 1963
Ignatius Donnelly: The Portrait of a Politician
The Sociologist as Historian: "Riesman's "The Lonely Crowd
A People among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America
The South in Southern History Textbooks
American Political Parties and the Rise of the City: An Interpretation
Journal Article American Political Parties and the Rise of the City: An Interpretation Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler professor of history Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 1964, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917933 Published: 01 June 1964
Bandeirantes and Pioneers
Southern History in the Making: Pioneer Historians of the South
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A Century of the Klans: A Review Article
Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century
The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
The Great Reversal: The Republican Party's First Century
Research Article| January 01 1966 The Great Reversal: The Republican Party’s First Century Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-65-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Carl N. Degler; The Great Reversal: The Republican Party’s First Century. South Atlant…
Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power: A Political Biography
Comparative History: An Essay Review
American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay
The Roots of the Modern American Empire: A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Market Place Society
Slavery in Brazil and the United States: An Essay in Comparative History
Slavery in Brazil and the United States: An Essay in Comparative History Get access Carl N. Degler Carl N. Degler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 4, April 1970, Pages 1004–1028, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.4.1004 Published: 01 April 1970
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