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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.
The new professorship honors the distinguished Massachusetts family honored in Winthrop House.
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