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Oscar Handlin

Oscar Handlin (September 29, 1915 – September 20, 2011) 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, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the 1950s. Handlin won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for ''The Uprooted'' (1951). Handlin's 1965 testimony before Congress was played an important role in passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that abolished the discriminatory immigration quota system. According to historian James Grossman, "He reoriented the whole picture of the American story from the view that America was built on the spirit of the Wild West, to the idea that we are a nation of immigrants." Provided by Wikipedia
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    Woodraw Wilson an the politics of morality by Blum, John Morton

    Published 1956
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    William H. Welch and the rise of modern medicine by Fleming, Donald 1923-

    Published 1987
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    The Puritan Dilemma The Story of John Winthrop by Morgan, Edmund S

    Published 1958
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