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Rowland Tappan Berthoff (September 20 1921 – March 25 2001) was an American historian working in the fields of immigration and social life in the USA. He is best known for his 1971 book An Unsettled People: Order and Disorder in American Life.He was born in Toledo Ohio attended Oberlin College did graduate work at Harvard University where he received a doctorate in 1952 as a student of Oscar Handlin.