Ellis Island closed as an immigration station and detention center. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived by boat in the United State of America. Ellis Island was the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROOKVILLE — Sixth graders at Hickory Grove got a glimpse of life from more than 100 years ago when their imaginations took ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 200 artefacts telling stories of early 20th century immigrants to the United States will be returned to New York's Ellis Island immigration museum on Thursday following ...

On the United States’ 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence a flotilla of ships from around the ...

Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) Conservation and restoration Text "accompanies a major photographic exhibition ... and will be ...

From a Revolutionary War battlefield to a civil rights-era safe haven, these historic sites are at risk, according to the ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today it stands alongside Plymouth Rock ...