Rachel Cockerell's "Melting Point" touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from ...

In the 1800s, it was believed that corners harbored disease. Thus, all the hallways of the Ellis Island hospital are rounded.

Artists Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs are asking $1.25 million for a 118-year-old boat docked at Staten Island.

Martin Luther King Jr. has a famous quote in reference to the nearly 400-year-long genocide of Native Americans from ...

Barack Obama came onstage as apotheosis, the multiracial, multicultural evolution of what Ellis Island promised to the Nation of Immigrants long ago. But in the evolving financial shambles of the ...

My grandparents landed on Ellis Island in 1902 with their 1-year-old son, my father, in their arms. Twenty-seven years later, in 1929, I was born. They ...

As Roman Catholics around the world mourn the death of Pope Francis, who was hospitalized with a complex lung infection and ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Dozens of immigrants became U.S. citizens Monday morning right here in the Quad Cities. The Central District of Illinois swore in 90 immigrants from 27 countries. The most ...