Silent Travelers

Alan M. Kraut is professor of history at the American University. He is the author of Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1920.

Fascinating... Kraut's narrative shows that it has always been easier to blame immigrants for epidemics than to attack the infrastructure of the disease. New York Times "Kraut chronicles the medical assimilation of immigrants through a series of public health and curative initiatives... For those interested in the public and private response to immigrant health problems, this book is a great read. Annals of Internal Medicine