Hernandez came to the United States through Ellis Island. Actually, he came through Ellis Island 14 times from 1935 to 1940. Determined to become an American, ...

Between 1892 and 1954, immigrants arriving on the shores of the United States passed below the towering face of Lady Liberty before docking at Ellis Island. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

A collection of more than 1,700 recorded oral histories from immigrants who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island will be available free online beginning Thursday at ancestry.com ...

Ellis Island was more than just an immigrant inspection station, it was a symbol of hopes and dreams for millions of immigrants hoping to create better lives for themselves in the United States.

In Encountering Ellis Island, historian Ronald Bayor probes the opportunities and the bigotry faced by immigrants to the U.S. Of the 196 recognized sovereign nations on the planet today, the ...

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 ...

Did the United States have open borders in the Ellis Island years? Many people, including some critical of my recent Washington Examiner column on Donald Trump's revised immigration proposals ...

From its establishment in 1890, and for about the next twenty years, Ellis Island was a brief stopping point for immigrants: they would be processed and swiftly welcomed into the United States to ...

The National Park Service and Evelyn Hill, Inc., the food service concessionaire at the Statue of Liberty since 1931 and Ellis Island since 2009, recently invited three purveyors of one of America ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the United States, was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma Lazarus reimagined Lady Liberty as a "mother of exiles," welcoming ...

These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the immigration station at New York's Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.