Abstract
Oscar Handlin, the leading American social historian in the early Cold War era, envisioned immigration as the key to America's national and world historical destiny.1 For Handlin, the history of American immigration was the source of universal insights about the possibilities for co-existence under the conditions of freedom that could illuminate a pathway in a problematic modern world. America as the quintessential immigrant nation was the quintessential modern nation, and as such its national destiny had much to say about human destiny.
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