Quote of the day
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
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)