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 ...
Max Miller of Tasting History prepared a typical meal of what European immigrants at the turn of the 20th Century would eat when they finally landed on Ellis Island. From much of the early 20th ...
About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac Asimov, Josephine Baker, Abe Beame, Irving Berlin, Frank Capra ...
It’s understandable that, after a pandemic, a period of high inflation and economic and social anxiety, and weak leadership, Americans would be ambivalent about immigrants. But ...
When Trump defended the H-1B program at a joint press conference with tech titans like Larry Ellison of Oracle, he stressed, "People like Larry, he needs engineers ... like nobody's ever needed them." ...
Outrage over immigration is a primary reason President Donald Trump and the Republicans have returned to power. Just before ...
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 ...
The statue also houses a museum dedicated to its history and construction, as well as the story of immigrants who came to the United States through Ellis Island. Ellis Island, located nearby ...
Ellis Island, located just a short ferry ride away from the Statue of Liberty, was the gateway to America for millions of immigrants. The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration offers a ...