Oscar Handlin (born September 29, 1915, Brooklyn) is a U.S.historian. September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. ...
In 1934, Handlin graduated at Brooklyn College and received a M.A. from Harvard University one year later. Between 1936 and 1938, he taught history at Brooklyn College[1]. In 1940, he received his PhD from Harvard.[2] Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York. ... MA or ma may stand for: ma, a two-letter English word meaning Mother Ma, transliteration of Chinese family name 馬,马,麻 etc. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
His work centered around the topic of immigrants in the U.S., and their influence on culture[2],
Handlin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1952 with The Uprooted[3]. The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. ...
Works
Commonwealth (1947, together with his wife, Mary Flug Handlin)
The Uprooted (1951, 2d enl. ed. 1973)
Boston's Immigrants, 1790–1865 (1941, rev. and enl. ed. 1959)
Adventure in Freedom; 300 Years of Jewish Life in America (1954)
Race and Nationality in American Life (1957)
The Newcomers—Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis (1959)
Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States.
OscarHandlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University.
Lilian Handlin is the author of George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat.
In this brief but dense book, Handlin and his wife tackle issues of power, space, family relations, conceptions of rights and religion in pre-revolutionary America, and throughout, a thousand little anecdotes from every colony and every time illustrate their points.
For example, one of the Handlins' principle points is the way necessity and space shaped Americans' modification of European traditions of power and liberty.
What the Handlins' approach lacks is a look at the material basis of the "actualities" of colonial experience.
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