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Oscar Handlin

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History

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

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immigrants in the U.S., and their influence on culture

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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.

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Parents

Arthur Meier Schlesinger

grad student

Harvard

Children

Rowland Berthoff	grad student	1952	Harvard
Bernard Bailyn	grad student	1953	Harvard
Barbara Miller Solomon	grad student	1953	Harvard
Morton Keller	grad student	1956	Harvard
Martin Bauml Duberman	grad student	1957	Harvard
David Brody	grad student	1958	Harvard
Anne Firor Scott	grad student	1958	Harvard
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.	grad student	1959	Harvard
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.	grad student	1959	Harvard
Richard L. Bushman	grad student	1961	Harvard
Richard L. Bushman	grad student	1961	Harvard
Akira Iriye	grad student	1961	Harvard
Stephan Thernstrom	grad student	1962	Harvard
Gunther Paul Barth	grad student	1957-1962	Harvard
Robert Fogelson	grad student	1964	Harvard
David J. Rothman	grad student	1964	Harvard
Richard Sennett	grad student	1965-1969	Harvard (STSTree)

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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