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...Handlin came to Harvard in 1939 and become Professor of history in 1954. In 1962 he was appointed. Winthrop Professor of History, the first of two chairs he received in the history department. He became Warren Professor of History...
President Bok has appointed Oscar Handlin. Warren Professor of American History as the new Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor...
...Handlin will succeed the late Merle Fainsod in the Pforzheimer chair, one of the University Professorships which entitle scholars to teach in any department in the University. Handlin will also become Chairman of the University Library Committee and Chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fainsod held both prior to his death last February...
Since no Faculty committee exists to recommend candidates for University chairs. Bok consulted the deans of the college before setting on Handlin as his choice...
...authority on American inmigrants, Handlin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 and received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1940. Handlin first book , "Boston Immigrants" won the 1941 Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, and his "the Uprooted" won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1951. Handlin`s most recent book is "Facing Life Youth and the family in American History ". Which he wrote with his Frequent collaborator, his wife Mary...