In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. — Oscar Handlin Copy Share Image
“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics… — Oscar Handlin Copy Share
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. — Oscar Handlin Copy Share
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. — Oscar Handlin Copy Share
“The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.” — Oscar Handlin Copy Share
