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Handlin, Oscar

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Handlin, Oscar (1915- )

US historian. His doctoral thesis, Boston's Immigrants 1790-1865 (1941), updated as The Uprooted (1951), won a Pulitzer Prize and established him as an authority on immigration. With his wife, sociologist Mary Flug Handlin, he wrote Commonwealth (1947). Other works include Race and Nationality in American Life (1957) and The Distortion of America (1981). Handlin was born in New York City. He taught at Harvard University (1938).
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