 In the 1960s, Handlin published 11 books, wrote a monthly column for the "Atlantic Monthly", directed the Center for the Study of Liberty in America, helped manage a commercial television station in Boston, chaired a board that oversaw Fulbright Scholarship awards, all in addition to his teaching duties at Harvard.From 1979 to 1983 he was director of the Harvard University Library.He also edited a 42-volume collection of books on subjects relating to immigration and ethnicity, "The American Immigration Collection" (1969).