Oscar Handlin
Affiliations: | History | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States |
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"Oscar Handlin"Bio:
Oscar Handlin was born on Sept 29, 1915. in Brooklyn, New York City, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Handlin decided to become an historian at the age of eight. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. Handlin taught at Brooklyn College from 1936-38, during which time he married Mary Flug, and began his long career on the Harvard University faculty in 1939.
Handlin’s dissertation was published in 1941 as Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1865: A Study in Acculturation. The book was highy regarded for its innovative research involving sociological concepts, census data, and the previously untapped immigrant press; in 1941, the book won the prestigious Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association for being the outstanding historical work published by a young scholar that year.
Cross-listing: History of History Tree
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Rowland Berthoff | grad student | 1952 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Bernard Bailyn | grad student | 1953 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Barbara Miller Solomon | grad student | 1953 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Morton Keller | grad student | 1956 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Martin Bauml Duberman | grad student | 1957 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| David Brody | grad student | 1958 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Anne Firor Scott | grad student | 1958 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Sam Bass Warner, Jr. | grad student | 1959 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Sam Bass Warner, Jr. | grad student | 1959 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Richard L. Bushman | grad student | 1961 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Richard L. Bushman | grad student | 1961 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Akira Iriye | grad student | 1961 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Stephan Thernstrom | grad student | 1962 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Gunther Paul Barth | grad student | 1957-1962 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Robert Fogelson | grad student | 1964 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| David J. Rothman | grad student | 1964 | Harvard (History of History Tree) |
| Richard Sennett | grad student | 1965-1969 | Harvard |
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| Murphy PL, Freyer T, Handlin O, et al. (1992) Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism. Library of American Biography. Journal of Southern History. 58: 742 |
| Stannard DE, Bailyn B, Handlin O, et al. (1987) The Invisible People of Early American History@@@The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction@@@Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution@@@Liberty and Power, 1600-1760@@@Atlantic America, 1492-1800@@@Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 American Quarterly. 39: 649 |
| Rothman DJ, Handlin O. (1982) The Uprooted: Thirty Years Later@@@The Uprooted. Reviews in American History. 10: 311 |
| Daniels R, Thernstrom S, Orlov A, et al. (1981) The Melting Pot: A Content Analysis@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Reviews in American History. 9: 428 |
| Steinberg S, Thernstrom S, Orlov A, et al. (1981) From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians: What's Left Out@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Contemporary Sociology. 10: 621 |
| Schermerhorn RA, Thernstrom S, Orlov A, et al. (1981) American Diversity--A Panorama@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Contemporary Sociology. 10: 617 |
| Thernstrom S, Handlin O, Orlov A. (1981) Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups The Russian Review. 40: 462 |
| Brownlee WE, Handlin MF, Handlin O. (1977) The Wealth of the American People Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 7: 722 |
| Scheiber HN, Handlin O, Handlin MF. (1972) Government and the Economy: Studies of the "Commonwealth" Policy in Nineteenth-Century America@@@Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 3: 135 |
| Handlin O, Davidson AA, Townsend JB, et al. (1970) This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits@@@A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans Art Journal. 30: 122 |