Oscar Handlin (September 29, 1915 – September 20, 2011) was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped …

Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of the twentieth century.

Oscar Handlin was an American historian and educator noted for his examinations of immigration and other social topics in American history. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Handlin graduated from …

Jan 1, 2012 · Handlin was not merely the nation’s preeminent historian of American immigration; his enormous body of work examined the American experience in its totality. His writings were based on …

Aug 13, 1995 · After six decades of shifting through piles of American documents and artifacts, historian Oscar Handlin has always maintained that America "is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of...

Handlin was very active as a scholarly organizer and administrator. In the Harvard history department he helped create the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America and directed it 1958 - 67; …

As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history. Handlin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1952 with The …

In order to extract the meaning of America the immigrant nation, Handlin approached the past as a moral critic. He did not hold to the extreme historicist and objectivist ideal.

he historiography of Hart-Celler in the very moment of its making. When he published The Uprooted in 1951, Handlin was an active public intellectual, writing extensively about pluralism and group life, civil …

Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Handlin ranks as one of the most prolific and influential American historians of the twentieth century, with pioneering works in the fields of immigration history, ethnic history, and …