| Date of Birth | 29-September-1915 | |
| Place of Birth |
Brooklyn (United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Profession | Historian, Author | |
| Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history. Handlin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1952 with The Uprooted. Handlin's 1965 testimony before Congress was said to "have played an important role" in abolishing a discriminatory immigration quota system in the U.S. | ||
Awards by Oscar Handlin |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Oscar Handlin. | ||||||||
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