Carl Neumann Degler (February 6, 1921 – December 27, 2014) was an American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
He earned a BA in history from Upsala College, and master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University.
[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 was used in high school and college classrooms.
He has been described as "a scholarly champion of the common man and woman in American history" and as "a founding feminist".