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According to Wikipedia, 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, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the 1950s. Handlin won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Uprooted . Handlin's 1965 testimony before Congress was said to "have played an important role" in passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that abolished the discriminatory immigration quota system in the US.

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Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups (1981) (374)
The Shock of Alienation: From The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People (2010) (294)
Capitalism and Freedom. By Milton Friedman with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Pp. vi + 202. $3.95 (1963) (166)
Origins of the American Business Corporation (1945) (116)
Origins of the Southern Labor System (1950) (100)
Race and nationality in American life (1957) (98)
Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation (1959) (87)
Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861. (1948) (84)
Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958. Isaiah Berlin (1960) (75)
The Historian and the City (1964) (70)
The Economic Mind in American Civilization, 1606-1865 (1946) (57)
Truth in history (1979) (54)
Government and the Economy: Studies of the "Commonwealth" Policy in Nineteenth-Century America@@@Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1972) (53)
Immigration as a factor in American history (1959) (53)
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1865: A Study in Acculturation (1991) (47)
Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts (1947) (44)
Herbert Hoover, forgotten progressive (1975) (40)
James Madison and the creation of the American Republic (1990) (38)
The history of the United States (1967) (35)
The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis (1960) (35)
Abstracts of reports of the Immigration Commission (1970) (33)
The popular sources of political authority : documents on the Massachusetts constitution of 1780. (1966) (29)
This Was America (1949) (25)
The American College and American Culture: Socialization As a Function of Higher Education, (1970) (25)
Facing life : youth and the family in American history (1972) (25)
Adventure in freedom : three hundred years of Jewish life in America (1954) (23)
John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context (1959) (21)
Refugees of Revolution. (1952) (19)
Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition (1967) (18)
Bourbon leader : Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party (1958) (17)
The American People in the Twentieth Century (1955) (17)
The rise of modern America, 1865-1951 (1952) (15)
Libraries and Learning. (1987) (14)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights (1995) (14)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Power (1969) (13)
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. (1958) (13)
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass (1995) (13)
Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism. (1955) (13)
The Dimensions of Liberty (1962) (12)
The uprooted : from the Old World to the New (1953) (11)
People Who Intermarry. Intermarriage in a New England Industrial Community (1949) (11)
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1865. (1942) (10)
Al Smith and his America (1987) (10)
American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia (1975) (10)
THE GOALS OF INTEGRATION. (1966) (10)
A Career at Harvard. (1996) (10)
America : a history (1968) (10)
Louis Marshall : champion of liberty : selected papers and addresses (1958) (9)
Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency (1983) (9)
Uprooted Americans: Essays to honor Oscar Handlin (1979) (9)
Glimpses of the Harvard Past (1986) (9)
Laissez-Faire Thought in Massachusetts, 1790–1880 (1943) (8)
James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America. (1958) (8)
The positive contribution by immigrants : a symposium prepared for Unesco by the International Sociological Association and the International Economic Association (1956) (7)
A Community in Search of Itself: A Case History of Cairo, Illinois (1972) (6)
The Uprooted: Thirty Years Later@@@The Uprooted. (1982) (6)
U. S. Grant And The American Military Tradition (1954) (6)
Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1919. (1965) (6)
The Social Life of a Modern Community@@@The Status System of a Modern Community (1942) (6)
James Logan and the culture of provincial America (1978) (6)
Readings in American history (1962) (6)
John F. Kennedy and a New Generation (1995) (6)
Harvard guide to American history (2014) (5)
Liberty in America, 1600 to the present (1986) (5)
A pictorial history of immigration (1972) (5)
A restless people: Americans in rebellion, 1770-1787 (1982) (5)
Piety and Power: The Role of the Italian Parishes in the New York Metropolitan Area, 1880-1930. (1977) (4)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (1984) (4)
John Marshall: Defender of the Constitution (1981) (4)
From the outer world (1997) (4)
Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (1994) (4)
The Americans: A New History of the People of the United States (1963) (3)
This was America : true accounts of people and places, manners and customs, as recorded by European travelers to the western shore in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries (1949) (3)
Henry Adams and the American Experiment (1980) (3)
The Positive Contribution by Immigrants. (1956) (3)
New York Metropolitan Region Study: A Study Undertaken by the Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University, for Regional Plan Association, Inc. (1962) (3)
Book Review:Memo to America--the DP Story: The Final Report of the United States Displaced Persons Commission (1954) (3)
The Wealth of the American People (1977) (3)
Chief Daniel Nimham v. Roger Morris, Beverly Robinson, and Philip Philipse - An Indian Land Case in Colonial New York, 1765-1767 (1964) (2)
Liberty and power, 1600-1760 (1987) (2)
The American people (1970) (2)
American Diversity--A Panorama@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1981) (2)
Radicals and conservatives in Massachusetts after independence (1944) (2)
History of the Archdiocese of Boston in the Various Stages of Its Development, 1604 to 1943, in Three Volumes (1944) (2)
Abraham Lincoln and the Union (1980) (2)
The Resurgence of American Immigration History (2016) (2)
Revolutionary Economic Policy in Massachusetts (1947) (2)
Commonwealth: Massachusetts, 1774-1861 (1948) (2)
A Russian Anarchist Visits Boston (1942) (2)
Prefatory Comments (1968) (2)
American principles and issues : the national purpose (1961) (2)
Fire-bell in the night : the crisis in civil rights (1964) (2)
The Changing Nature of the Republican Party (1956) (1)
This new man : a discourse in portraits (1969) (1)
Research Library Collections in a Changing Universe: Four Points of View (1984) (1)
Italians and Germans in Australia. A Study in Assimilation. (1955) (1)
The American people : a new history (1963) (1)
The wealth of the American people : a history of American affluence (1976) (1)
The Welsh in America. Letters from the Immigrants. Edited by Alan Conway. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961. Pp. vi, 341. $6.00 (1962) (1)
Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present. Vol. I: Liberty and Power, 1600–1760. By Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin. (New York: Harper & Row, 1986. xxi + 280 pp. $16.95.) (1987) (1)
Capitalism, Power, and the Historians: An Essay Review@@@Capitalism and the Historians@@@Study in Power. John D. Rockefeller Industrialist and Philanthropist (1955) (1)
America's Impact on the World: A Study of the Role of the United States in the World Economy, 1750–1970. By William Woodruff. New York and Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, 1975. Pp. xv + 296. $12.95 (1976) (1)
Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present. Volume Two: Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850. (1990) (1)
Chance or Destiny: Turning Points in American History (1977) (1)
Man and Magic: First Encounters with the Machine (2016) (1)
The distortion of America (1981) (1)
REFERENCES ADDED IN THE SECOND PRINTING (1954) (1)
The Social System of the Modern Factory. The Strike: A Social Analysis. By W. Lloyd Warner and J. O. Low [The Yankee City Series, Vol. 4.] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. Pp. 245. $3.00 (1947) (1)
The American university as an instrument of republican culture: Sir George Watson lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 6 March 1970 (1970) (1)
11 Political Theory and Popular Thought (2018) (1)
Benjamin Franklin and a Rising People.@@@The Library of American Biography (1955) (1)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger: February 27, 1888-October 30, 1965 (1967) (1)
Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut . By Anthony N. B. Garvan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. Pp. xiv, 166. $7.50. (1953) (1)
The Melting Pot: A Content Analysis@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1981) (1)
Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art (1954) (1)
The American people : the history of a society (1966) (1)
Just Because Things Change, that doesn't Mean They Stay the Same@@@Truth in History. (1980) (1)
4. PATTERNS OF ADJUSTMENT (1959) (1)
Education and The American Society. (1974) (1)
5 Historical Criticism (2018) (0)
Chapter Two. RESEARCH AND WRITING (1954) (0)
APPENDIX: Motives for Negro Migration to the Suburbs (1959) (0)
Seeing America and Its Great Men: The Journal and Letters of Count Francesco dal Verme, 1783–1784. Trans. and ed. by Elizabeth Cometti. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969. xxxiii + 147 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendixes, and index. $6.00.) (1970) (0)
Chance or destiny (1955) (0)
Chapter Twenty-six. THE DIPLOMACY OF EXPANSION, 1900–1917 (1954) (0)
The Pitfalls of Intellectual History@@@Explaining America: The Federalist. (1981) (0)
Chapter Thirty. WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1941–1952 (1954) (0)
The Nineteenth-Century Immigration (2019) (0)
Chapter Twelve. REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY, 1801–1815 (1954) (0)
The Uprooted@@@Civil Rights in Immigration (1954) (0)
3. THE NEWEST IMMIGRANTS (1959) (0)
The Quest for Equality (1979) (0)
Book Review:The Destruction of the European Jews. Paul Hilberg (1962) (0)
Chapter Twenty-five. THE IMPACT OF REFORM ON POLITICS, 1900–1920 (1954) (0)
II. THE PROCEDURES FOR THE EXERCISE OF POWER (1961) (0)
Edmund S. Morgan. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 1975. Pp. x, 454. $11.95. (1976) (0)
The Mind of America, 1820–1860. By Rush Welter. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xvi + 603 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) (1975) (0)
Book Review: The Study of Urban History (1970) (0)
1 A Discipline in Crisis (2018) (0)
Liberty in Peril, 1850-1920 (1992) (0)
I. LIBERTY AND POWER (1961) (0)
III. The Migrations (1966) (0)
10 History in a World of Knowledge (2018) (0)
Chapter Eight. FROM THE STUART RESTORATION TO THE TREATY OF UTRECHT 1660–1713 (1954) (0)
Chapter One. THE NATURE OF HISTORY (1954) (0)
Civil-Military Relations. (1955) (0)
Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present. Volume 3, Liberty in Peril, 1850- 1920. (1992) (0)
8 How to Count a Number (2018) (0)
Chapter Six. FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 1600 (1954) (0)
14 The Two-Party System (2018) (0)
Chapter Sixteen. MANIFEST DESTINY AND SLAVERY, 1830–1848 (1954) (0)
Immigrants on the Threshold.Judith T. Shuval (1965) (0)
9 Seeing and Hearing (2018) (0)
Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle (1995) (0)
Chapter Four. AIDS TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH (1954) (0)
State and Economy in the U.S.A.@@@Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861. (1948) (0)
This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits@@@A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans (1970) (0)
The Population of California. A Report of a Research Study Made by Authorization of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club of California (1947) (0)
Chapter Twenty-three. THE CRUMBLING OF NATIONAL ISOLATION 1875–1900 (1954) (0)
This new man:a discourse in portraits.Edited by J. Benjamin Townsend and introd. by Charles Nagel. With an essay by Oscar Handlin. (1968) (0)
VI. RESTRICTIVE ASSOCIATION (1961) (0)
4 Theories of Historical Interpretation (2018) (0)
The Liberal Tradition: A Study of the Social and Spiritual Condition of Freedom. By William Aylott Orton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. Pp. xiv, 317. $3.50 (1946) (0)
Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present. Vol. 4: Liberty and'Equality, 1920–1994. By Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin. (New York: HarperCollins, 1994. xviii, 363 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-06-017153-7.) (1996) (0)
The Bill of Rights in Its Context [with replies] (2016) (0)
IV. THE ENDS OF THE USE OF POWER (1961) (0)
Recent Books on American Jewish History (1955) (0)
[For a re-evaluation of the role of immigration in American society] (1980) (0)
III. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL POWER (1961) (0)
Chapter Seventeen. THE YEARS OF DECISION, 1848–1861 (1954) (0)
Wiegand, Wayne A . Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey . Chicago: ALA, 1996. 403p. $35. (ISBN 0-8389-0680-X.) (1997) (0)
Chapter Twenty-two. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, 1865–1900 (1954) (0)
17 The Uses of History (2018) (0)
Chapter Twenty. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1865–1880 (1954) (0)
The newcomers. (2006) (0)
I. THE CROSSING TO PENNSYLVANIA (1960) (0)
VII. POWER AND THE WEALTH OF MEN (1961) (0)
The Maryland Germans a History. By Dieter Cunz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948. Pp. xi, 476. $5.00 (1950) (0)
V. THE IMMIGRANT AND AMERICAN POLITICS (1967) (0)
Chapter Twenty-eight. DECADE OF PROSPERITY, 1920–1929 (1954) (0)
Chapter Twenty-four. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, 1900–1920 (1954) (0)
Chapter Eleven. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC (1954) (0)
The American: The Making of a New Man. (1944) (0)
X. Group Life in America (1966) (0)
Notes on Illusion and Reality in American Foreign Policy (2008) (0)
I. A New Century's Vistas (1966) (0)
III. THE RETURN TO GERMANY (1960) (0)
African American (2020) (0)
Chapter Fifteen. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 1829–1840 (1954) (0)
Chapter Twenty-nine. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1930–1941 (1954) (0)
American Historians and European Immigrants, 1875–1925. By Edward N. Saveth. [Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 540.] New York: –Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. 244. $3.00 (1949) (0)
15 The Diet of a Ravenous Public (2018) (0)
VII. The Impact of Depression (1966) (0)
VIII. New Patterns of Action (1966) (0)
History of Naugatuck, Connecticut. By Constance McL. Green. Naugatuck, Conn., 1948. Pp. xii, 331. $5.00 (1949) (0)
Chapter Three. THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY (1954) (0)
IX. Two Decades of Global War (1966) (0)
1952 Award. About the Great Migrations in America (1993) (0)
V. VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS (1961) (0)
VERNANT, JACQUES. The Refugee in the Post-War World. Pp. xvi, 827. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. $6.00 (1954) (0)
The Completion of Independence, 1790–1830. By John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox. [A History of American Life, Vol. V.] New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Pp. xxiii, 487. $4.00 (1945) (0)
12 Man and Magic (2018) (0)
Chapter Five. HISTORICAL SOURCES (1954) (0)
7 How to Read a Word (2018) (0)
Being Jewish: The Endless Quest (2016) (0)
Desegregation In Perspective (1957) (0)
5. FORMS OF SOCIAL ACTION (1959) (0)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
Book Review:Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800-1943 George Heberton Evans, Jr. (1949) (0)
VI. World War (1966) (0)
3 A History of American History (2018) (0)
American Views of the Past (1954) (0)
Chapter Ten. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1760–1789 (1954) (0)
II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA (1960) (0)
VIII. QUESTIONS OF CHRONOLOGY AND CAUSE (1961) (0)
Immigration as a factor in American History / Oscar Handlin (1954) (0)
Book Review:The Scotch-Irish. A Social History. James G. Leyburn (1963) (0)
Book Review:The Second Generation: A Study of the Family Among Urbanized Bantu in East London. B. A. Pauw (1965) (0)
Research on the Metropolis: Foundation for Conservation@@@Anatomy of a Metropolis@@@Made in New York@@@The Newcomers@@@Wages in the Metropolis@@@Money Metropolis@@@Freight and the Metropolis@@@One-Tenth of a Nation@@@1400 Governments@@@Metropolis 1985 (1962) (0)
The Bill of Rights in Its Context (2016) (0)
16 Ethnicity and the New History (2018) (0)
6 An Instance of Criticism (2018) (0)
An Old Dream Defended (2016) (0)
13 Good Guys and Bad (2018) (0)
Chapter Nineteen. LIQUIDATION OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1865–1880 (1954) (0)
V. World War (1966) (0)
A West-Indian Fortune. Richard Pares (1952) (0)
"Questions and discussions, part 3" in "Music librarianship in America, Part 3: Music librarians and American music" (1991) (0)
2. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, 1620-1928 (1959) (0)
Chapter Seven. THE PLANTING OF THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH IN NORTH AMERICA TO 1660 (1954) (0)
Theory and Practice in Historical Study: A Report of the Committee on Historiography (1946) (0)
American Labor. By Henry Pelling. The Chicago History of American Civilization. Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. viii + 247 pp. Illustrations, suggested reading, and index. $5.00.) (1961) (0)
History: A Discipline in Crisis? (2016) (0)
II. The Color Line (1966) (0)
Chapter Thirteen. THE NEW NATIONALISM, 1815–1829 (1954) (0)
IV. The Strains of a Free Society (1966) (0)
Living in a Valley (2016) (0)
From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians: What's Left Out@@@Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1981) (0)
Problems of a Jittery Community (1960) (0)
Chapter Nine. FROM THE TREATY OF UTRECHT TO THE REVOLUTION (1954) (0)
Chapter Twenty-one. NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMIC TRENDS 1880–1900 (1954) (0)
Chapter Fourteen. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION, 1820–1860 (1954) (0)
W. D. Borrie and others. The Cultural Integration of Immigrants: A Survey Based upon the Papers and Proceedings of the UNESCO Conference Held in Havana, April 1956. Pp. 297. Paris: UNESCO, 1960. Distributed by the Columbia University Press, 1960. $3.00 (1960) (0)
Chapter Eighteen. THE CIVIL WAR (1954) (0)
International Economics (1948) (0)
Chapter Twenty-seven. THE WORLD WAR (1954) (0)
Models of adaptation (1980) (0)
Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850, Volume 2 of Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present (1990) (0)
Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850 (1989) (0)
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The Uprooted