10 Ungilded Realities of Life in the Gilded Age

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” –Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883) And come they did in their millions from across the ocean, seeking to enter […]

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