"Unguarded Gates"
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Date
April 1892
Description
"Unguarded Gates," is a poem by author and editor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich which was printed in "The Atlantic Monthly." It expresses strong nativist sentiments common around the turn of the century as large numbers of Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to enter the country.
Type
Written Document
Region
United States
Era
Turn of the Century and WWI
Topic
Immigration
Repository
Source
Page 57 of "The Atlantic Monthly" Vol. 70 No. 417. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Accessed at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/sim_atlantic_1892-07_70_417/page/56/mode/2up
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