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Oscar Handlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oscar Handlin (born September 29, 1915, Brooklyn) is an American historian. Handlin was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. In 1934, Handlin graduated at Brooklyn College and received a M.A. from H...
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Oscar Handlin biography, including 3 pages of information on the life of Oscar Handlin. ... Oscar Handlin was born on Sept. 29, 1915, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was involved in running a grocery store, a steam laundry, and real estate.
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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 social history. ... Oscar Handlin was born on Sept 29, 1915. in Brooklyn, New York City, son of Russian...
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"Oscar Handlin was the scholar most responsible for establishing the legitimacy of immigration history."—Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible ... Oscar Handlin is Emeritus Professor of History, Harvard University. Among his many books are The American People in the Twentieth Century, Race and Nationality in...
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Father: Joseph Handlin; Mother: Ida Yanowitz; Wife: Mary Flug (m. 1937, one son, two daughters); Wife: Lilian Bombach (m. 1977); ... 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);
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Handlin, Oscar. Handlin, Oscar. Information about Handlin, Oscar in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... With his wife, sociologist Mary Flug Handlin, he wrote Commonwealth (1947). Other works include Race and Nationality in American Life (1957) and The Distortion of America (1981).
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by Chas W. Akers; Oscar Handlin (editor) ... by Oscar Handlin ... by Oscar Handlin; Mary Flug Handlin...
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With his wife, Mary F. Handlin, he wrote Commonwealth (1947), a study of the economy and of the role of government in Massachusetts during the period 1774–1861. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in history for The Uprooted (1951, 2d enl.
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Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the ... The Handlins have re-examined both their original conclusions and the procedures by which they arrived at their formulation of the problem. ... There are two significant additions to the book:
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