As many as 12 million people are thought to have first stepped foot in the United States through Ellis Island’s immigration ...

Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it Brian D. Scanlan ...

All of my grandparents emigrated from St. Kitts. Records of my paternal grandparents are available on the Ellis Island website between 1912 and 1922, but none of my maternal grandparents can be ...

When we genealogists think of immigration through New York City, which was the gateway for millions of our American ancestors, we tend to envision the huge facility Ellis Island, now a museum and ...

The Battle Creek Symphony will explore the American immigrant experience with its upcoming concert, "American Dream." The performance, set for April 11 at W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, will feature "Ellis ...

Whether it was forging Pittsburgh steel or building iconic New York City landmarks, immigrants in the early 20th century were at the forefront — and photographer Lewis Hine captured it all. The Frick ...

I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million colonists and enslaved people lived in what would eventually become the ...

Inside one of the most famous monuments in the world is a bronze plaque that reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your ...

The creator of a Web site providing Internet access to Ellis Island immigrant records acknowledged yesterday that it badly underestimated the site's popularity and has had to turn away millions of ...

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