Gateway To America Ellis Island, the Press, and How a Million Immigrant Voices Shaped the American Story

In 1907, more than a million immigrants poured through the gates of Ellis Island, more than in any other year in American history. They came clutching china bowls, candlesticks, and impossible dreams of streets paved in gold. What awaited them was a sixty-second medical exam, a system stretched past its breaking point, and a newspaper of record quietly deciding how America would remember them.Gate...