Sunday, October 2, 2011

Oscar Handlin

The distinguished historian Oscar Handlin recently passed away, at 95.

Here is an obituary, from The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/us/oscar-handlin-historian-who-chronicled-united-states-immigration-dies-at-95.html

Here, too, is an amazon link to for his well-known book about immigration, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People. The book received the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for history.

http://www.amazon.com/Uprooted-Oscar-Handlin/dp/0316343137/