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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous landmarks in the world — Ellis Island — for private commercial use.” The ...

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 ...

At a time when immigrants are a major political issue, one local artist is putting them front and center in her gallery.

Families were often kept on Ellis Island for months at a time ... It wasn't an event to feed new immigrants their beloved foods but to introduce them to what Americans eat. In 1898, the feast ...