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Oscar Handlin Quotes:

Ocupation: Historian

Life: September 29, 1915 - September 20, 2011

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Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

source: - Oscar Handlin (2002). “The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People”, p.3, University of Pennsylvania Press

Topics: Writing, America, American History

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In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Topics: Expectations, Outsiders, Immigration

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