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HANDLIN, Oscar was born on September 29, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Ida (nee Yanowitz) Handlin.
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Rarely is it possible to hear the voice of the people in a revolution except as it filters through the writings of articulate individuals who may not really be representative. But on several occasions during the effort to draft a constitution for Massachusetts after 1776, the citizens of the Commonwealth were asked to convene in their 300 town meetings to debate and convey to the legislators their political theories, needs, and aspirations. This book presents the transcribed debates and the replies returned to Boston which constitute a unique body of material documenting the political thought of the ordinary citizen. In an important, extended introduction, the editors, interpreting the American Revolution and its sustaining political framework in light of this material, analyze the forces that were singular and those that were universal in the shaping of American democracy. Comparisons are made with popular uprisings in other parts of the world and at other times, and the whole is integrated into a general discussion of the nature of revolution and its relationship to constitutional authority.
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This book is a methodological primer on how historians gather evidence, presume reliability of witnesses, and develop forms of verification in the conduct of analysis and research. It is an introduction to the study of history and an examination of specific instances in which ideology has distorted the study of American history. Oscar Handlin is best known as America’s leading historian of ethnicity and the immigrant experience in the new nation. When it was first published in 1961, The Distortion of America was perhaps the first critique of anti-Americanism as an ideological expression of Marxism-Leninism in schools of higher learning. For the second edition, originally published in the 1990s, Handlin added chapters on forces affecting economic strength in the US; race and distortions of America; Yugoslavian troubles created by class divisions; and the relevance to China of democracy in the United States. The final chapter is a memorable essay on how Arthur Koestler’s career exemplifies the difficulties of the ex-communist in an unsympathetic environment. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume offers a new generation of historians and students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with one of the premier historians of the twentieth century.
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This book is a methodological primer on how historians gather evidence, presume reliability of witnesses, and develop forms of verification in the conduct of analysis and research. It is an introduction to the study of history and an examination of specific instances in which ideology has distorted the study of American history. Oscar Handlin is best known as America’s leading historian of ethnicity and the immigrant experience in the new nation. When it was first published in 1961, The Distortion of America was perhaps the first critique of anti-Americanism as an ideological expression of Marxism-Leninism in schools of higher learning. For the second edition, originally published in the 1990s, Handlin added chapters on forces affecting economic strength in the US; race and distortions of America; Yugoslavian troubles created by class divisions; and the relevance to China of democracy in the United States. The final chapter is a memorable essay on how Arthur Koestler’s career exemplifies the difficulties of the ex-communist in an unsympathetic environment. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume offers a new generation of historians and students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with one of the premier historians of the twentieth century.
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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels.
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HANDLIN, Oscar was born on September 29, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Ida (nee Yanowitz) Handlin.
AB, Brooklyn College, 1934. AM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1935. Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940.
Doctor of Laws, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1962. Doctor of Laws, University Massachusetts, Boston, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1967.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, 1969. Doctor of Humanities, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1968. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 1972.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1989. D.Letters, Brooklyn College, 1972. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Boston College, 1975.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Lowell University, 1980. Doctor of Letters, University Cincinnati, 1981. Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1993.
Instructor, Brooklyn College 1936-1938, Harvard University 1939-1944. Assistant Professor Harvard University 1944-1948, Association Professor 1948-1954, Professor, of History 1954-1962. Director Central for Study of Liberty in America 1958-1966, Winthrop Professor, of History 1962-1965, Charles Warren Professor, of History 1965-1972, Director Charles Warren Central for Studies in American History 1965-1972, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor 1972-1984, Director University Library 1979-1983, Carl M. Loeb Professor 1984-1986.
Harmsworth Professor, Oxford University 1972-1973. Vice-Chairman United States Board Foreign Scholarships 1962-1965, Chairman 1965-1966. Trustee New York Public Library since 1973.
Guggenheim Fellow 1954, Brandeis University Fellow since 1965. Fellow American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1983.
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Author: Boston's Immigrants, 1941, Commonwealth, 1947, This Was America, 1949, The Uprooted, second edition, 1973, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954, Adventure in Freedom, 1954, Chance or Destiny, 1955, Race and Nationality in American Life, 1956, Readings in American History, review edition, 1970, Al Smith and His America, 1958, Immigration as a Factor in American History, 1959, The Newcomers-Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis, 1959, American Principles and Issues, 1961, The Dimensions of Liberty, 1961, The Americans, 1963, Fire-Bell in the Night, 1964, Children of the Uprooted, 1966, Popular Sources of Political Authority, 1967, History of the United States, 1967, America, A History, 1968, The American College and American Culture, 1970, Statue of Liberty, 1971, Facing Life-Youth and the Family in American History, 1971, A Pictorial History of Immigration, 1972, The Wealth of the American People, 1975, Truth in History, 1979, review edition 1997, Abraham Lincoln and the Union, 1980, The Distortion of America, 1981, revised edition, 1996, Liberty and Power, 1986, Liberty in Expansion, 1989, Liberty in Peril, 1992, Liberty and Equality, 1994, From the Outer World, 1997. Editor: Harvard Ethnic Encyclopedia. Contributor history journals.
Vice-chairman United States Board Foreign Scholarships, 1962-1965, chairman, 1965-1966. Trustee New York Public Library, since 1973. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member Massachusetts History Society (Kennedy medal 1991), Colonial Society Massachusetts, American Jewish History Society.
Married Mary Flug, September 18, 1937. Children: Joanna Flug, David Paltiel, Ruth Blume. Married Lilian Bombach, June 17, 1977.