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(1915-2011) Historian. Oscar Handlin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife was Mary Flug Handlin, also a historian.

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Oscar Handlin

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1915

BIRTH

Oscar Handlin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 29, 1915.

1934

OTHER

Dr. Handlin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 and taught there from 1936 until 1938.

1941

LITWORK

Boston's Immigrants: 1790-1880
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Nonfiction.

1947

LITWORK

Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861
New York University Press
ASIN: B0014IRDFC
Nonfiction written with his wife, Mary Flug Handlin.

1951

LITWORK

The Uprooted: The Epic Story Of The Great Migrations That Made The American People
Grosset & Dunlap; Grosset's Universal Library edition.

ASIN: B00158V22Q
Nonfiction / Winner of the 1952 Pulitzer for history.

1954

LITWORK

Adventure in Freedom; 300 Years of Jewish Life in America
McGraw-Hill
ASIN: B002GF6KZG
Nonfiction.

1955

LITWORK

Chance or Destiny: Turning Points in American History
Little, Brown, and Company
ASIN: B0006AU5WW
Nonfiction.

1958

LITWORK

Al Smith and His America
Atlantic Monthly Press
ASIN: B000QV30OQ
Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

The American College and American Culture: Socialization As a Function of Higher Education
McGraw-Hill Book Company
ISBN-10: 0070100152 / ISBN-13: 978-0070100152
Nonfiction with Mary Flug Handlin.

1975

LITWORK

The Wealth of the American People: A History of American Affluence
McGraw-Hill

ISBN-10: 0070259852 / ISBN-13: 978-0070259850
Nonfiction / With Mary Flug Handlin.

1979

LITWORK

Truth In History
Belknap/Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674910257 / ISBN-13: 978-0674910256
Nonfiction.

1997

LITWORK

From the Outer World
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674326393 / ISBN-13: 978-0674326392
Nonfiction edited with Lilian Handlin.

2011

DEATH

Oscar Handlin died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 20, 2011.

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