Oscar Handlin

Oscar Handlin (1915-2011) was an American historian and Harvard professor for over 50 years who pioneered the field of immigration history with his seminal work The Uprooted (1951), which won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History, and Boston's Immigrants, 1790–1865 (1941), earning the John H. Dunning Prize. Pulitzer.org. His congressional testimony helped pass the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, redefining America as a nation of immigrants, and he directed 80 PhD dissertations while authoring numerous books on ethnicity, liberty, and social history.