All posts tagged "quarantine"

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  Mary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America

  Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...

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  Island Castaways, New England’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Get Well

  Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...