Immensely rewarding. This is the distillate of a well-furnished and original mind. Running through this book is Handlin's strong sense of the morality of the historian. Above all, he reiterates the importance of respect for fact.
   --Christian Science Monitor

By any standard Oscar Handlin ranks among the most influential historians of the American past...Truth in History...provide[s] the most complete statement of Handlin's approach that we can hope to get. In these essays, written over many years but here reworked into a remarkably unified whole, Handlin examines the limits and possibilities of historical thought.
   --New Republic

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
• Glimpses of the Harvard Past
• Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Enlarged Edition
• 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