A sketch from 1887 titled "New York - Welcome to the land of freedom." ((Image courtesy Library of Congress))
Coming to America
Broadcast: Midday, 07/12/2006, 12:06 p.m.
In a speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanford University historian David Kennedy asks: "Can the United States Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants?"
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