Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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)