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American-European Distributing Company, 320

American Federation of Labor (AFL),

60, 112

American Hebrew, 85, 164, 169, 177, 197,

214

American Immigrant Wall of Honor,

400, 402, 409

American Indians, 344, 386, 405–6 American Jewish Committee, 11, 198 American Museum of Immigration, 380 American Revolution, 95

American Tract Society, 136, 185 anarchists, 6, 40, 87, 127–28, 146–48,

151, 168, 195, 221, 232, 313–14,

316, 318, 319, 360

see also Goldman, Emma

Andras, Ildra, 157

Angel Island, 409

Antin, Mary, 65–66, 396

Antony, Allard, 25

Apprentice, The (TV show), 406 Ashes of Love (Cathcart), 260, 261, 263–64

Asia, 11–12, 122, 344

Astor Place Riot, 32

Atlas, Sol, 380

Auspitz, Emil, 116–17

Australia, 343

Austria, 154

Austria-Hungary, 92, 96, 103, 200, 286

Baldwin, William, 380

Baratte, Lucien, 284

Barbieri, Fedora, 361–62

Barge Office, 49, 63, 92, 108, 112, 113,

114, 116, 117, 118, 121, 141, 144 Barnum, P. T., 31

Baron de Hirsch Fund, 71, 80, 81 Barone, Michael, 399

Bartholdi, Auguste, 50

Bartholdt, Richard, 162

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 394

Bass, Sydney Herbert, 225–27

Battery, 30, 36, 37, 93, 108, 121 Bauer, Frederick, 360

Bavaria, 327

Bedloe’s Island, 23, 50, 290

Bedloo, Isaack, 25–26

Begeman, George, 294–95

Behar, Nissim, 213

Beitz, Nechemie, 199

Bell, John, 141

Bellamy, Russell, 197

Bennet, William S., 269, 300–301, 304, 305

Berkman, Alexander, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 325

Berlin, Irving (Israel Beilin), 382

Bernstorff, Johann von, 309

Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Moynihan), 389–90

Bill of Rights, 89, 312

“Bill to Regulate Immigration,” 48–49

Binet, Alfred, 242–43, 248, 254, 255

Bingham, Theodore, 186, 280–81

birth control, 245, 319

Bishop, William Gerald, 353–55, 357, 359

Bitty, John, 279

Black, Hugo, 373

Black Capitalism, 386, 388

Black Power, 386, 390

Black Tom Island, 294

explosion on, 289–92, 293, 309, 325

Blackwell’s Island, 19, 24

blindness, 10, 141

Board of Commissioners of Emigration, 35–36, 37–38, 42, 44, 49

Bohemia, 50, 295

Bohemians, 103, 200

Bonaparte, Charles, 171

Borcelli, Raffaele, 150

Boston, Mass., 94, 95–106, 143, 146, 185, 327

Boston Globe, 93–94

Boston Herald, 103, 144, 333

Bourne, Randolph, 306–7, 327, 335, 415

Box, John, 316

Brahmins, 95–106, 132, 134

Brandenburg, Broughton, 222

Braun, Marcus, 138, 177, 224,

278–79

sexual turpitude and, 278–79

white slavery investigated by, 278

Briggs, G. Loring, 94, 104

Bronx, N.Y., 24

Brooklyn, N.Y., 28, 35

Brooklyn Bridge, 290

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, 135, 145, 187, 188

Brownell, Herbert, 373–74, 375–76

Buchanan, James, 38

Bucking Island, 26

Buford, 325, 326, 327, 328

Bullis, Helen, 281, 282

Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 171, 233

Burger, Warren, 394

Burke, Thomas Henry, 119

Burnett, Henry, 143, 144

Burnett, John, 183

Busch, Max, 75

Bush, Barbara, 400

Bush, George H. W., 399

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 131, 132, 133, 134

Byersdorff, Hermann, 296

Cable, Benjamin, 211, 237

Caffey, Francis G., 318

California, 38, 411

Caminetti, Anthony, 239, 313, 318, 319,

325, 331

Campbell, Richard K., 116, 117, 118,

135, 140

Canada, 343, 419

Canfora, Vincenzo, 203

Capra, Frank, 381

Caribbean, 11, 12, 404, 411

Carnegie, Andrew, 175

Caruso, Enrico, 298

Castle Garden, 29, 30–38, 42, 46, 54,

107, 116, 128, 136, 142, 166, 397 closing of, 49, 62, 108

deterioration of, 44–49

first day of, 36–37

indignation meeting at, 30–33

reports on, 47–49

Castro, Cipriano, 270–73

Cathcart, Earl of, 260, 264

Cathcart, Vera, Countess of, 260–64,

268, 270, 286

Catholics, Catholic Church, 96, 99, 109,

111, 135, 136

“Causes of Race Superiority, The” (Ross), 347

Cavendish, Lord, 119

Census, U.S.:

of 1880, 50, 96

of 1890, 39, 341, 343, 344

of 1910, 341

Central Labor Union, 94

Chae Chan Ping, 61

Chandler, Nathan, 77

Chandler, William (settler), 77

Chandler, William Eaton, 91, 96, 342 Ellis Island investigation led by, 77–85, 88, 105

China, 11–12, 14, 42, 53, 61, 87, 168,