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...worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes's. But in stripping the North of its moral pretensions, he may have trimmed the truth as well. He lumps abolitionists with slaveholders, though, as Historian Oscar Handlin remarked, "There is surely a difference between being a fanatic for freedom and being a fanatic for slavery." He likens the two-year imprisonment of Jefferson Davis to Stalin's terrorism, but Stalin was rarely so gentle. When he claims that war is no more justified than one sea slug...
Appointed to chairs were the following: Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History; William Liller '48, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy; Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law; Kenneth V. Thimann, Higgins Professor of Biology. Also approved: Charles P. Lyman '36, member of the Faculty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
American Historian Oscar Handlin, professor of History, will become the first Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard July 1. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Uprooted, Handlin is well-known for his contributions to the history of Massachusetts and to the social and economic history of the United States...
Together with his wife, Mary F. Handlin, he wrote The Dimensions of Liberty, the first work of Harvard's Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America, of which he is director...
...newest chair-the .Winthrop Professorship of History, commemorating the family that produced the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony-went to a second-generation American who made his formidable reputation chronicling somewhat later waves of immigration. Harvard's first Winthrop historian: Pulitzer Prizewinner Oscar (The Uprooted) Handlin, 46, a Brooklyn grocer...