There was a time when the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island welcomed the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to ...

Alexandra Dutton went through Ellis Island in 1923 season 2, episode 3, but why did she have to endure abuse instead of just ...

Alexandra makes it through (after proving she can read and verbally emasculate a corrupt official), but she still has to get ...

more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...

The Angel Island Immigration Station operated from 1910 to 1940, and, like Ellis Island for the East Coast, it became the symbolic portal for West Coast entry into the United States. Unlike Ellis ...

Current estimates put the figure of actual immigrants who passed through the Station at about 300,000. Comparatively, Ellis Island received about 12 million throughout the time of its operation. Of ...

Between 1904 and 1926, the American photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) photographed countless newcomers at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. While there, he trained his ...

The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration offers a chance to learn ... Ellis Island Tour at Battery Park are the Bowling Green station and the Whitehall Street station.

Ellis Island straddles New York ... ancestor who entered the U.S. via this station. Though considered a gateway to the American dream, long lines and the threat of detainment and deportation tested ...

more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...