Just beyond New York Harbor sits a historic island where abandoned wards, immigrant stories, and exclusive guided tours ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historic photograph of Ellis Island. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 12, ...

The Defiance County Genealogical Society (DCGS) met on Monday with historian and educator Taylor Moyer giving a presentation on the history, building layout and working procedure of the immigration ...

On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous ...

Ellis Island Entrance (Paul Seibert/Courtesy Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation) Ellis Island Main Building under construction circa 1900 (Courtesy Statue of Liberty National Monument and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The museum’s revitalization project will be completed by 2026. Courtesy Paul Seibert/Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Ellis Island was once home to the largest and busiest immigrant ...

This limited-run tour, with available dates from October through December, provides a rare opportunity to see a fading masterpiece. JR’s wheat-pasted photographs were not meant to be permanent. There ...

ELLIS ISLAND, New York (Reuters) - Ellis Island, once the gateway to America for millions of immigrants, is having a make-over after years of neglect that nearly allowed nature to destroy a national ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Chris Cuomo explores the complex issue of ...