Oscar Handlin

31 books

Al Smith and His America by Oscar Handlin

Al Smith and His America

Library of American Biography

Oscar Handlin

224 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective slow-paced
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation by Oscar Handlin

Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation

Oscar Handlin

400 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party by Horace Samuel Merrill, Oscar Handlin

Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party

Library of American Biography

Horace Samuel Merrill, Oscar Handlin

234 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life by Oscar Handlin, J. William T. Youngs

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life

Library of American Biography

Oscar Handlin, J. William T. Youngs

286 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring slow-paced
Glimpses of the Harvard Past by Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, Bernard Bailyn

Glimpses of the Harvard Past

Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, Bernard Bailyn

161 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic by Elijah Anderson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, James Alan McPherson, Claude M. Steele, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hua Hsu, Thomas Edsall, Robert Coles, Juan Williams, Woodrow Wilson, Robert S. Boynton, Jonathan Kozol, Martin Luther King Jr., Anthony Lewis, Quincy Ewing, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph McGill, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin E. Mays, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, J. Saunders Redding, Booker T. Washington, Jack Beatty, Randall Kennedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Betty E. Chmaj, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jeffery Goldberg, Ralph Ellison

Race and the American Idea: 155 Years of Writings From The Atlantic

Elijah Anderson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, James Alan McPherson, Claude M. Steele, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hua Hsu, Thomas Edsall, Robert Coles, Juan Williams, Woodrow Wilson, Robert S. Boynton, Jonathan Kozol, Martin Luther King Jr., Anthony Lewis, Quincy Ewing, Mary D. Edsall, Ralph McGill, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin E. Mays, Oscar Handlin, Nicholas Lemann, J. Saunders Redding, Booker T. Washington, Jack Beatty, Randall Kennedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Betty E. Chmaj, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jeffery Goldberg, Ralph Ellison

768 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging reflective medium-paced
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership by R. David Edmunds

Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership

R. David Edmunds

229 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People by Oscar Handlin

The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People

Oscar Handlin

344 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy by Courtney Geduldig, John Dearie

Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy

Courtney Geduldig, John Dearie

274 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
Abraham Lincoln and the Union by Oscar Handlin, Lilian Handlin

Abraham Lincoln and the Union

Library of American Biography

Oscar Handlin, Lilian Handlin

204 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced