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	Harvard University Press: From the Outer World by Oscar Handlin
		Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States.
		Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University.
		Lilian Handlin is the author of George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/HANOUT.html?show=catalogcopy (267 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Not Up To Par
		In this brief but dense book, Handlin and his wife tackle issues of power, space, family relations, conceptions of rights and religion in pre-revolutionary America, and throughout, a thousand little anecdotes from every colony and every time illustrate their points.
		For example, one of the Handlins' principle points is the way necessity and space shaped Americans' modification of European traditions of power and liberty.
		What the Handlins' approach lacks is a look at the material basis of the "actualities" of colonial experience.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=141206 (517 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		Guided by a sociological understanding of ethnic communities, Handlin looked - as no historian had before - at how immigrants coped with the process of urbanization and how a major city changed under the stress of their coming.
		During the 1950s Oscar Handlin turned against the view of the immigrant as an outsider, “a foreign element injected into American life.” {9} Instead, he cast the immigrant as a type of American, undergoing as all Americans have a painful but liberating transition to modernity and freedom.
		<9> Oscar Handlin, “Immigration in American Life: A Reappraisal,” in Henry Steele Commager, ed., Immigration and American History: Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegen (Minneapolis, 1961), 10.
	www.stolaf.edu /naha/pubs/nas/volume31/vol31_01.htm (9962 words)

	Amazon.com: Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Handlin, Oscar//Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present): Books: Oscar ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From Prohibition and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s through the Depression and New Deal to the present, the Handlins gauge historical events and social trends by the yardstick of whether they expanded or contracted the scope of human freedom.
		Oscar (history, emeritus, Harvard) and Lilian Handlin complete their history of liberty in America since 1600 with this account of developments after 1920.
		The Handlins' writing is quirky, but their research is outstanding, particularly of cultural developments.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Liberty-Equality-1920-1994-Handlin-America/dp/0060171537 (1047 words)

	History Now. The Historians Perspective
		It is difficult today to recapture the iconoclasm signaled by Oscar Handlin’s opening words to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Uprooted more than fifty years ago: “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America.
		But to a 1950s population that was used to marking historical time by presidential administrations, Handlin’s insistence that the fortunes of distressed common folk might better capture the American essence than presidents, wars, and legislative politics was bracing.
		Handlin, and those who followed his lead, posed a simple challenge to these contributionalists: Imagine an America without immigrants.
	www.historynow.org /03_2005/historian.html (1777 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: The Pitfalls of Heroic History Writing
		The Handlins' book at times simply reads like a well-researched, in-depth look at the same issues that your American history high school textbook covered.
		The social structure was the framework in which the colonists developed their new society, and without fully reveling in it, the Handlins miss the mark.
		On the one hand, Oscar Handlin, who retired last year, may have felt compelled to write it as the definitive version of his view of the main themes in American history.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=233756 (847 words)

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		Swedish immigrants Gertrud Ryd and Oscar Aronson were married in Norwood, New Jersey in 1928.
		Opponents of this theory, most notably Oscar Handlin, argue that the immigrants were uprooted, that they were holding on to but still losing their European identities.
		Gertrud's reluctance to gamble with her future by leaving her aunt and uncle and joining Oscar in Chicago is understandable.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jahc/Thorvaldsen/ThorIndex.HTML (9447 words)

	Gender, myth, and memory, ethnic continuity in Greek-American narrative MELUS - Find Articles
		Instead he had ever to toil painfully from crisis to crisis, as an individual alone, make his way past the discontinuous obstacles of a strange world.
		Oscar Handlin's forty year old observation of the immigrant reality, a reality of difference, can be applied as well to the literature of immigrants.
		To do so, each immigrant group and each immigrant literature must be considered with reference to the "life experience (such as history, folklore, and religion)" (Wald 29) of both the ethnic and the culture from which the ethnic is distinguished.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_n3_v20/ai_18298425 (920 words)

	Primary Resources for US History : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The historian Oscar Handlin wrote in his 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Uprooted, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America.
		Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.” * Handlin’s comment described nineteenth-century America, but it also succinctly and aptly summarizes the importance of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
		During the last twenty years, the racial and ethno-national composition of the U.S. population has changed dramatically, with the Hispanic and Asian populations growing at much faster rates than the Black or White populations.
	www.vcdh.virginia.edu /solguide/VUS14/essayTest.html (2635 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He argues their conclusions are generally correct, but that they completely miss a key cause of Anti-Semitism—the negative image of the Jew brought about by popular culture of the Gilded and Progressive eras.
		Handlin claims the origin is with the Populist Party, but Pollack disagrees.
		This is a useful article because Pollack cites Handlin’s arguments, and in doing so presents another historian’s view of the issue.
	www.dickinson.edu /~kupplert/bib.htm (1128 words)

	Amazon.com: The Uprooted: Books: Oscar Handlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He looks at the Great Migration from the point of the impact on the immigrants and their children, rather than the impact on Canadian and United States cultures.
		Dispells the theory that we were taught in the 60s and 70s, that the immigrants came because they wanted to, and this was to them, the land of rags to riches.
		Handlin points out that if their very lives had nott been at stake, the vast majority would never have made the move.
	www.amazon.com /Uprooted-Oscar-Handlin/dp/0316343137 (1145 words)

	Interpretation at Civil War Sites - A Report to Congress March 2000
		Another factor not to be taken lightly are the differing opinions and points of view on the telling of the Civil War story held by the visiting public.
		In 1961, at the outset of the Civil War Centennial, Oscar Handlin observed that, “Again and again, Americans have come back, in their thinking, to the Civil War.
		Every mention of the War touches off deep emotional responses; why the responses should be so sensitive after the lapse of so long a time is by no means clear.” Forty years after Oscar Handlin penned those words, the immediate emotional public response to the war continues to limit the public discussion of the event.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/icws/icws_obst.htm (346 words)

	Oscar Handlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Oscar Handlin (born September 29, 1915, Brooklyn) is a U.S. historian.
		In 1934, Handlin graduated at Brooklyn College and received a M.A. from Harvard University one year later.
		Handlin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1952 with The Uprooted
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Oscar_Handlin (155 words)

	Issues: Perspectives (January 2002): In Memoriam: Rowland T. Berthoff
		He came to Washington University in 1962 after teaching at Princeton, and from 1966 until his retirement in 1992 he was William Eliot Smith Professor of History.
		Rod was Oscar Handlin's second PhD, and his dissertation on British immigrants in industrial America was one of several pathbreaking ventures into the new field of social history that elevated the lives of ordinary people into the historical significance they deserved.
		We now tend to take for granted the ascendancy of social history and its descendants, but Rod was one of the first of a new wave of social historians who swept across the profession and gave respectability to peoples and subjects once derided, and coherence to a field that had lacked order and meaning.
	www.historians.org /Perspectives/Issues/2002/0201/0201mem1.cfm (711 words)

	Homework Assignment on Immigration, due Friday, September 20
		In what ways did workers resist the attempts of employers to dictate the terms of life, and were they effective?”] Contrast the perspective and tone of Handlin’s essay with that of Rosenzweig’s essay.
		You do not have much space in which to answer these questions, so be concise.
		Note: the last question, about resistance, may not apply to Handlin’s essay.
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~ppennock/112Assign3.htm (188 words)

	NCPA - Education - College Seniors Illiterate On U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A little more than a third were unable to identify the U.S. Constitution as establishing the division of power in American government.
		Harvard University professor emeritus Oscar Handlin warns that history is a discipline in decline and notes "a profound ignorance not only among students but among their teachers as well."
		A number of historians blame the decline of the history curriculum to the notion that American history is ethnocentric or Eurocentric.
	www.ncpa.org /~ncpa/pi/edu/pd022100c.html (324 words)

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		By 1775 the need for corporations had become so pent up, it was, without question, part of the "shot that was heard around the world."
		In Handlin's words, this story is quite remarkable: "In 1800 the United States was only beginning its history as an independent nation.
		It was an underdeveloped country, primarily agricultural, with a population of perhaps 4 or 5 million along the Altantic coast.
	smallbusinessschool.org /webapp/sbs/Principles/handlin.jsp (495 words)

	TIME.com: The Danger of Disaster -- Sep. 3, 1956 -- Page 1
		Absolutely not, says Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin in the Atlantic Monthly—and he presents a gloomy set of statistics to prove his point.
		To help meet the crisis, says Handlin, the U.S. can fall back on such devices as classroom TV and the use of lay assistant teachers.
		But the problem will never disappear until the U.S. has raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since 1940") and changed its whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,824357,00.html (756 words)

	Journal of American History: Textbooks & Teaching
		You don't need to agree with everything a book says, but you do need to be exact in describing what it does say before criticizing it.
		When first published in 1941; the book was recognized as a pioneering work, and it remains the fullest study of its subject.
		They stress, for example, immigrants' strength in adversity, their creative adaptation to the New-World circumstances in which they found themselves, and their critical contributions to the community that became their home.
	www.indiana.edu /~jah/textbooks/2001/maier.shtml (795 words)

	Handlin, Oscar - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Handlin, Oscar" at HighBeam.
		The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People.(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-handlin.html (357 words)

	Phlit: A Newsletter on Philosophy and Literature: Nirad Chaudhuri, Edward Shils, etc.: 2005-2 (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In his essay, Handlin describes the informal process by which he was admitted to Harvard’s graduate school.
		Handlin complains about “the ratings game” — that is, the way students choose courses based on ratings from previous students.
		Handlin wasn’t only a student of history at Harvard, he was also a student of Harvard’s own history, and he was inspired by the example of Harvard’s founders:
	www.ljhammond.com.cob-web.org:8888 /phlit/2005-02.htm (8369 words)

	AllRefer.com - Oscar Handlin (Historians, U.S., Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Oscar Handlin (Historians, U.S., Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and has taught there since 1939.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Oscar Handlin
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Handlin.html (250 words)

	TIME.com: College, Who Needs It? -- Jun. 12, 1972 -- Page 2
		Another critic of the educational Establishment is Oscar Handlin, professor of history at Harvard.
		At Brooklyn College's commencement exercises last week, he commiserated with the graduates, saying that 16 years in a classroom is simply too long.
		Noting that their ancestors were considered men and women at age 13 or 14 and "had tested their powers well before they were out of their teens," Handlin said: "Nothing real happens to those lapped in comfortable dependence and shielded by beneficent institutions against exposure to the elements." Colleges, Handlin concluded, are actually killing education.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,906035-2,00.html (512 words)

	99.03.06: The Italian Immigrant Experience in America (1870-1920)
		To tell their story is also to tell the story of the United States.
		Oscar Handlin in The Uprooted begins his introduction "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America.
		An excellent source for the students to use is The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/3/99.03.06.x.html (8008 words)

	Books About Immigration
		325 HANDLIN Handlin, Oscar, 1915- The uprooted.
		Strangers in the land : patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925.
		325.73 HANDLIN Handlin, Oscar, 1915- Immigration as a factor in American history.
	melvil.chicousd.org /immi-books.html (224 words)

	Oscar Handlin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		"Oscar Handlin was the scholar most responsible for establishing the legitimacy of immigration history."--Gary Gerstle, author of
		It should excite all Americans about their nation.
		The latest volume in the Handlins' widely acclaimed history of American liberty covers the period 1850 to 1920 in a fascinating exploration of the nature of repression and the forces of liberty under seige in a democratic society.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Oscar_Handlin (621 words)

	History News Network
		But it is my memory that the shift away from contested presidencies in the OAH came shortly after their embarrassment at having Marxist (huh?) Eugene Genovese defeat Harvard's Oscar Handlin in the '76 ('77?) OAH presidential election.
		I was on the 1976 nominating committee of the OAH, but this arrangement was worked out, ironically, while I was out of the room: President Frank Friedel
		But since Handlin was at about that time nostalgically recalling the 1933 annual meeting of the AHA -- a kind of an all-male smoker -- it could have been worse.
	hnn.us /comments/72432.html (270 words)

	Find in a Library: Uprooted Americans : essays to honor Oscar Handlin
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	Amazon.com: Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present): Books: Oscar Handlin,Lilian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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