Quote of the day
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Oscar Handlin

Born: September 29, 1915
Died: September 20, 2011 (aged 95)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- The Uprooted (1951)
- Boston's Immigrants (1941)
- Truth in history (1979)
- Abraham Lincoln and the Union (1980)
- Al Smith and his America (1958)