Writer Rachel Cockerell talks about an effort known as the Galveston Movement in the early 20th century to convince Russian ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

Many of us residing in the U.S. of European descent are the children of immigrants. Some are more recent than others, but ...

Many of us residing in the U.S. of European descent are the children of immigrants. Some are more recent than others, but ...

But the Ellis Island narrative is misleading. While early 20th-century immigrants were poor by today’s standards, they were positively selected relative to their home countries — often better ...

Here's what we discovered. Alexandra waits with other immigrants at Ellis Island in 1923. (Image via 101 Studios/Paramount+) In 1923, Alexandra's entry at Ellis Island is portrayed as a brutal and ...

These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the immigration station at New York's Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...

On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed after admitting millions of immigrants from all around the world into the United States. Cork teen Annie Moore was the first person to go ...

West Side School recently brought history to life for its fourth grade students during its much-anticipated annual event, ...