Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...

Today, a non-profit organization, aptly named Save Ellis Island!, is working to preserve these unsung structures. Through their efforts, and those of the National Park Service, the history of all ...

America’s foreign born population now makes up a record 15.2% of the US, surpassing the previous high of 14.8 percent in 1890 — just two years before Ellis Island opened to deal with the ...

If only these walls could talk ... imagine the stories they'd tell,” we mused aloud as we walked through the Great Hall on ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

You can also do a little digging on your own family tree at the Family History Center. Other exhibits explore what immigration was like before and after Ellis Island. Though an audio guide is ...

Comparatively, Ellis Island received about 12 million throughout the time of ... the elaborate poetry carvings and writings that were a hidden treasure of American history. The Angel Island ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

Once on Ellis Island, you can stay for as long as you ... According to reviewers, the guides at Take Walks make the history of the Statue of Liberty come alive and are particularly skilled at ...

Between 1892 and 1954, 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.