Quote of the day
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
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)