The first Greeks who arrived in the New World had to go through Ellis Island, which became the designated immigration station ...

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 ...

The Feature Profile Test, in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, was administered to immigrants at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. Those who failed to ...

As members of the Sisters of Mercy, an international Catholic religious order dedicated to solidarity with women and children, migrants and refugees, we cannot be silent about the plight of these ...

How many immigrants came through Philly? In the 62 years Ellis Island operated, from 1892 to 1954, more than 12 million ...

The first immigration station at Ellis Island opened in 1892. In that first year, the new immigration station processed over 400,000 immigrants. Immigration through Ellis Island would reach its ...

"Hailing from the Germanic-speaking region of Alsace now in modern day France, the large bow known as a schlupfkàpp was worn by single women." "The bows signified the bearer's religion: black for ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

"I am one of the nearly 40% of all U.S. citizens who can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty stand as timeless symbols of hope, resilience ...