title: Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide
author:  Virginia Yans-McLaughlin 
description: This history of the place <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Wells%2c%20H.%20G./${0}">H. G. Wells</a> once called "quietly immense" is a fine contribution to our understanding of how central immigrants have been to the American experience. Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Marjorie Lightman, both historians, track the great historic waves of migration by which America was peopled following the first arrival of settlers from the British Isles; assemble documentary evidence of reaction to these newcomers, both hostile and sympathetic; and provide a set of study guides and questions for the use of high school students.
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  Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Philip
  Hamilton McMillan of the class of , Yale College.
  
  
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