Ponce Bank President and CEO Carlos Naudon has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official ...

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

Mariano Testa, my father, was born in 1896 on the outskirts of Rome, Italy in the large town of San Vito Romano. Barely a ...

A recent poll conducted by the University of North Florida found that only 2% of respondents said immigration is the most ...

In 1921, after the passage of the Quota Act, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, seemingly on a whim, allowed those held at Ellis Island to spend 90 days in America for Christmas.

The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is officially recognized by both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with recipients entered into the Congressional Record. DeWeese was recently honored at a ...

New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...

World Refugee Day is an international observance honoring the resilience, courage and self-determination of those who have ...

That vision of a nation united in diversity is on full display at the Grace Museum in downtown Abilene, showcasing the story ...

The Times reporter suggested an answer: Roosevelt at Ellis Island “met the missionaries who look after the spiritual and in many cases the material welfare of the immigrants.” ...

Trailblazing photographer Alice Austen's archive of more than 7,500 photographs returns to her ancestral home in New York.