Oscar Handlin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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U.S. historian
Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1915
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 20-Sep-2011
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About 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 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 U.S.
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