The massive project to modernize the historic immigration museum comes as political tensions over immigration are rising.

The new 100,000-square-foot museum is housed in the island’s main building, where 5,000 immigrants per day were processed at the height of Ellis Island’s use from 1892 through 1924. The island ...

In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island. Skip to content Skip to site index Here’s What They ...

We’re talking about the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island: 770 stainless steel panels engraved with the names of about 775,000 immigrants. Each name on the wall was paid for by ...

By the 1930s, Ellis Island was used almost exclusively for detention and deportation. During World War II, as many as 7,000 detainees and "internees" were held at the Island.