Oscar Handlin Born: 29-Sep-1915 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 20-Sep-2011 Location of death: Cambridge, MA Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Uprooted Father: Joseph Handlin Mother: Ida Yanowitz Brother: Nathan Wife: Mary Flug (m. 1937, d. 1976, one son, two daughters) Son: David Daughter: Joanna Handlin Smith Daughter: Ruth Nandlin Manley Wife: Lilian Bombach (m. 1977, until his death)
University: BA, Brooklyn College (1934) University: MA, Harvard University (1935) Teacher: History, Brooklyn College (1936-38) University: PhD, Harvard University (1940) Professor: Harvard University (1939-86) Administrator: Library Director, Harvard University (1979-85)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1952 for The Uprooted Guggenheim Fellowship 1954 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1983 New York Public Library Trustee (1973-)
Author of books:
Boston's Immigrants, 1790–1865 (1941) Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts 1774-1861 (1947) This Was America (1949) The Uprooted (1951) Adventure in Freedom: Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America (1954) The Positive Contribution of Immigrants (1955) Race and Nationality in American Life (1956) Immigration as a Factor in American History (1959) The NEwcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis (1960) Fire-Bell in the Night (1964) Popular Sources of Political Authority (1967) History of the United States (1967-68, history, 2 vols.) Facing Life (1971, with Mary F. Handlin) The Wealth of the American People (1975) Truth in History (1979) The Distortion of America (1981) Liberty and Power (1986) Liberty in Expansion (1989) Liberty in Peril (1991) Liberty and Equality (1994) From the Outer World (1997)
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