Oscar Handlin (1915–2011)
Author of The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People
About the Author
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Oscar Handlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he has taught since 1939 and was director of the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty until 1966. From 1979 to 1984, he was director of the university library at Harvard, and, after holding the show more Charles Warren chair in history for many years, in 1984 he became Charles M. Loeb University Professor. Handlin, who is a consensus historian and a strong advocate of civil rights, has written extensively on urban history and immigration. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for The Uprooted (1951), his study of immigrants in the eastern cities of America written from the perspective of the immigrant. The son of immigrant parents himself, he made his special field of study the social history of immigrant groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth century from eastern and southern Europe. In The Americans (1963), as in others of his books, he dispensed with footnotes, bibliography, and identification of quotations in favor of "unobtrusive" learning. Handlin edited Children of the Uprooted (1966), which includes excerpts from various authors on the subject of the "marginality" of immigrants, and collaborated on a number of works with his first wife, Mary, and his second wife, Lillian. On the subject of education, he wrote The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture (1970) and John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context (1959). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Oscar Handlin
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People (1951) 379 copies
Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1987) 18 copies
Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1989) 13 copies
The popular sources of political authority; documents on the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 (1966) 7 copies
Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1871) 6 copies
Liberty in Peril, 1850-1920 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present) (1992) 6 copies
The American College and American Culture: Socialization As a Function of Higher Education, (1970) 6 copies
Lincoln and the Union 3 copies
Introduction 1 copy
New Worlds, New Visions 1 copy
America a story 1 copy
Associated Works
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967) — Foreword, some editions — 173 copies
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglas (Library of American Biography Series) (1980) — Editor — 62 copies
Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (1963) — Foreword, some editions — 60 copies
The Forty-Eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848 (1967) — Contributor — 9 copies
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- Canonical name
- Handlin, Oscar
- Birthdate
- 1915-09-29
- Date of death
- 2011-09-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (PhD|History)
Brooklyn College - Occupations
- historian
- Relationships
- Handlin, Mary Flug (wife, deceased)
Handlin, Lilian (wife) - Awards and honors
- Union League History Prize
Pulitzer Prize (History, 1952)
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Statistics
- Works
- 62
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 1,449
- Popularity
- #17,737
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 68
- Languages
- 2