Lilian Handlin Explained
Lilian Handlin, née Bombach, is an American historian. She studied at Queens College in New York City and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She became a professor of history at Hebrew University.
Life
Lilian Bombach was born to Edith Schneeweiss and Leon Bombach.[1] She completed a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York.[2] [3] Bombach earned a M.A. from Brown University. She completed a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her 1975 dissertation, about American historian and diplomat George Bancroft, was titled George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer.[4] Yehoshua Arieli was Bombach's doctoral advisor.
From 1970 to 1977, Handlin was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She married historian Oscar Handlin in 1977. In 1984, Handlin published a biography of George Bancroft.[5] Handlin and her husband co-published a biography of President Abraham Lincoln (1980) and surveys of American history including the four-volume Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present.
She was married to Oscar Handlin from 1977 until his death in 2011.[6]
Selected bibliography
Authored
- George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat (Harper and Row, 1984)[7]
Co-authored with Oscar Handlin
- Abraham Lincoln and the Union (Plunkett Lake Press, 1980)
- A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770–1787 (Anchor Press, 1982)
- Liberty and Power: 1600–1760: Volume One of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (Harper & Row, 1986)[8]
- Liberty in Expansion, 1760–1850: Volume Two of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, 1993)
- From the Outer World (1997)[9]
Notes and References
- News: 2001-02-02 . Bombach obituary . 28 . The Boston Globe . 2023-03-31 . Newspaper.com.
- Web site: Alumni Historians . 2023-03-31 . QC History Department . en-US.
- Web site: Plunkett Lake Press . 2023-03-31 . plunkettlakepress.com.
- Bombach . Lilian . George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer . 1975 . Ph.D. . Hebrew University of Jerusalem . 42611432.
- News: McFeely . William S. . July 22, 1984 . George Bancroft: a biography in the grand manner . B11, B13 . . March 30, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
- News: Feeney . Mark . 2011-09-22 . Oscar Handlin; historian led US immigration study . Boston.com . 2023-03-30.
- Reviews of George Bancroft:
- News: Leary . Lewis . 15 July 1984 . Bancroft A Versatile Man . 28 . The Chapel Hill News . 30 March 2023.
- News: McFeely . William S. . July 22, 1984 . George Bancroft: a biography in the grand manner . B11, B13 . . March 30, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
- News: Barry . Eugene P. . November 28, 1984 . Biography includes a slice of history . . March 30, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
- News: Peters . Margaret . September 23, 1984 . George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat . . March 30, 2023 . ProQuest.
- News: Schlesinger Jr. . Arthur . September 10, 1984 . The education of a historian . . March 30, 2023 . ProQuest.
- News: Jaillite . Embree . May 26, 1985 . Bancroft was scholar, man of the world . D1, D3 . . March 30, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
- Shade . William G. . 1985 . Review of George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat, by L. Handlin . . 15 . 2 . 427–28 . JSTOR.
- News: Bass . Judy . September 30, 1984 . Man of many careers was remembered for his history of the U.S. . P9 . . 0885-6613 . .
- Ekirch . Arthur A. Jr. . Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. . April 1985 . Lilian Handlin. George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat. (Cornelia and Michael Bessie.) New York: Harper and Row or Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto. 1984. Pp. xvi, 415. $24.50 . The American Historical Review . 90 . 2 . 488 . 10.1086/ahr/90.2.488.
- News: Barber . Benjamin R. . 1986-09-21 . Independent Before Independence . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-03-30 . 0362-4331.
- Book: Handlin . Oscar . From the Outer World . Handlin . Lilian . 1997-01-01 . Harvard University Press . 9780674326408 . en.
