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Oscar Handlin


Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
September 29, 1915

Died
September 20, 2011

Genre
History


Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.51 · 716 ratings · 107 reviews · 165 distinct works
The Uprooted: The Epic Stor...
3.56 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1951 — 28 editions
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Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1...
3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions
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Abraham Lincoln and the Uni...
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3.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
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Americans a New History of ...
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Truth in History
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1979 — 15 editions
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Al Smith and His America
3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1958 — 10 editions
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The Historian and the City
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Liberty in America, 1600 to...
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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Commonwealth: A Study of th...
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“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.”
― Oscar Handlin, Truth in History
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“The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
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“In America a bread never came without complications.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
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