Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Oscar Handlin
American Author of 30 books, Historian, Editor and Professor of History at Harvard University, Winner of Pulitzer Prize
"Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history."
"In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner."
"The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer."