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

The man who adopted Bezos, 61, when he was just four and had faith in Amazon as a start-up will play a major role in his ...

America has been described by many as the 'great melting pot'. This moniker emphasizing the far reaching and ever inclusive ...

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 ...

Before the Civil War America’s open door welcomed large waves of Irish and German immigration and then millions from Italy ...

One of the students, struck by a guilty conscience, confesses after taking drugs given to him by a female nightclub ...

Forty-five eighth-grade students from the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) graduate on June 18 with diplomas from ...

Farm and restaurant owners are upset. They're losing their workers. The papers say that Brooke Rollins, the agricultural secretary, is getting heat from people who grow lettuce, buy lettuce and serve ...

Europe’s long flirtation with anti-immigrant rhetoric is coming back to haunt it — this time with its own citizens in the ...

The route from Boston to Washington D.C. is historical in nature as you may pass through some of the most important sites in ...

HIAS is the refugee agency that has aided hundreds of thousands of Jews for more than a century. It is likely that ancestors of readers of this piece, and is certainly true of me, benefited at Ellis ...