• Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

An excellent case study in the great problem of social assimilation. One feature, among others, that stands out clearly is its refutation of the all-too-comforting and popular notion that the American community, local or national, has been able to accept great contingencies of foreign population without experiencing significant and lasting modifications of its own cultural features.
   --American Sociological Review

This book has helped raise this field of American studies to a high level of distinction and satisfaction.
   --Nathan Glazer, New Leader

Handlin has opened a new field for historical research.
   --William F. Whyte, American Journal of Sociology

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is the editor of This Was America.

Read More by Oscar Handlin:

• From the Outer World
• Commonwealth: A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy: Massachusetts, 1774-1861
• Truth in History
• Glimpses of the Harvard Past
• The Dimensions of Liberty
• The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis
• This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places
• Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
• The Popular Sources of Political Authority: Documents on the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
• American Jewish Ephemera: A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Judaica Collection of the Harvard College Library