The years 1880 and 1920 bookend a famously high period of immigration to the United States. The era’s “Great Wave” was so large that it remade cities, sparked social and political upheavals, and challenged the nation’s self-identity. With the foreign-born population peaking at 14.8% in 1890 and then at 14.7% in 1910, the scale of immigration was unprecedented. 

Until now.

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