![]() In 19 he was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. ![]() Sixteen years later he moved on to Stanford University, where he was Margaret Byrne Professor until his retirement in 1990. He taught at Hunter College, New York University, and City College of New York before joining the faculty of Vassar College in 1952. Here is a challenging new way to approach American history and this reader found the book. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Degler matriculated at Upsala College and received his Ph.D. In 1972 another of his works, Neither Black nor White (1971), won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the Bancroft Prize and was co-winner of the Beveridge Prize. ![]() Carl Degler writes history with flair, and his spirited and readable topical history of the United States, Out of Our Past (1959), has long been a favorite among college students and general readers. ![]()
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