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Land of Promise

American historians give Christopher Cook their accounts of vital moments in the making of the United States.

Episode one: the history of US immigration.

"I remember everyone rushing up in deck...Then the first thing we saw was the top of the Woolworth building and everyone cheered 'America!'"

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