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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Another statue on Ellis Island in New York City depicts the same teen on Ellis Island, clutching a suitcase in one hand and holding her hat to her head in the other. “Ellis Island: Gateway to a ...

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 ...