Though the United States has not welcomed immigrants through Ellis Island since the federal immigration station closed in 1954, it is believed that about 40 percent of Americans can trace their ...

Climate change threatens to drown Ellis Island. The gateway to the United States for 12 million immigrants holds a precarious place amidst rising seas on a warming planet. One model predicts the ...

Ellis Island: A People’s History looks at the everyday injustices that have haunted the country’s stance on immigration for centuries. An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island, 1925. (Photo by ...

On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous ...

Ellis Island closed as an immigration station and detention center. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived by boat in the United State of America. Ellis Island was the largest ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) — Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it’s also where hundreds of ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it stands alongside Plymouth Rock ...

It’s a myth that America has always welcomed immigrants with open arms and big hearts. As the lunatics were taking over the debate about the U.S. responsibility toward Syrian refugees, I was reminded ...

This article discusses racism, ableism, and abuse. Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for 1923 season 2, episode 3.Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) had a harrowing trip through Ellis Island in 1923, ...