Oscar Handlin
Oscar Handlin · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
1915, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Oscar Handlin was a Harvard historian who transformed the study of immigration and American social history; his book 'The Uprooted' (1951) won the Pulitzer Prize for History. He argued that the immigrant experience was central to American identity. He was born to Jewish immigrant parents from the Russian Empire in Brooklyn.
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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
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