Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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)







