NYT misquotes James Grossman in Oscar Handlin obituary

Wendy Plotkin, the editor-in-chief of H-Urban, reports that James Grossman, Executive Director of the American Historical Association, was misquoted in the New York Times's obituary of Harvard historian Oscar Handlin.

The article read thusly:

"Dr. Handlin changed the way Americans view American history, said James Grossman, a historian and executive director of the American Historical Association. “He reoriented the whole picture of the American story,” he said, “from the view that America was built on the spirit of the Wild West, to the idea that we are a nation of immigrants.”

Mr. Grossman did not actually use the term "Wild West" when speaking to the Times. He used "frontier." Grossman said to Ms. Plotkin, "[I] was explaining to the reporter the dominance of Turner's frontier thesis in academic and popular thinking about American culture and democracy.