The definitive narrative history of American immigration — Ellis Island, the great wave, Chinese exclusion, the 1924 quota law, and the Hart-Celler Act that remade the nation, 1880-1965.On April 17, 1907, 11,747 immigrants passed through Ellis Island in a single day — one person every few seconds, doctors scanning for trachoma with a metal hook, inspectors asking fourteen questions before waving each family through. More than twelve million people had followed Anni...

THE HUDDLED MASSES — Audiobook · Narrated by Owen Vance. Listen time: 5 hours 4 minutes The definitive narrative history of American immigration — Ellis Island, the great wave, Chinese exclusion, the 1924 quota law, and the Hart-Celler Act that remade the nation, 1880-1965. On April 17, 1907, 11,747 immigrants passed through Ellis Island in a single day — one person every few seconds, doctors scanning for trachoma with a metal hook, inspectors asking fourteen questions before waving eac...