New York Times Best Seller list author Ellen Marie Wiseman knew the basic plot line of her new novel three years ago, and now, a few weeks before its release, she has once again touched upon a hot ...

In working through the Winter case files, I often felt pinpricks of déjà vu: an exact turn of phrase, an absurdly specific ...

German immigrants were among the first to sell hot dogs ... as Greek immigrants filtered into Detroit after arriving in the U.S. via New York’s Ellis Island. Many of these new Detroiters opened diners ...

That scammer was George C. Parker. The son of Irish immigrants, he was born in New York City on March 16th, 1860. The world where he grew up and maneuvered in was one of great diversity, urbanization, ...

Wikimedia Commons/International Film Service The 1916 Black Tom Explosion in New Jersey Just after 2 AM on July 30, 1916, German spies wanted to stop bullets from reaching British trenches, so they ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

For generations of Irish immigrants, Ellis Island marked both a tearful farewell and a bold new beginning.

The senior White House aide got hit with a wicked reality check over comments tied to an iconic American structure.

"Slavic immigrant Ellis Is - 1905" Image same as Items 6708, 6706, but cropped differently and of a different size.

The Roosevelt Hotel became a refuge for thousands of migrants traveling to New York City from the border. Officials shuttered it as the number of new arrivals wanes.

In 1892, within sight of the statue, America's first-ever immigration facility opened at Ellis Island. By the 1920s, more than 12 million immigrants from Europe had come through Ellis Island.