Oscar Handlin

Oscar Handlin (1915-2011) was an American historian and Harvard University professor who virtually invented the field of immigration history in the 1950s. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History for his seminal work *The Uprooted* (1951), which examined the experiences of European immigrants to America. His scholarship and congressional testimony were instrumental in shaping American understanding of immigration and contributed to the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.