A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

Overall, today’s immigrants speak English at much higher rates than those at Ellis Island or even those in the 1980s and 1990s. Most report speaking English “very well” or only English.

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...

Untold stories of Caribbean immigrants at Ellis Island 06:56. NEW YORK - Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States ...

To root out the “feeble-minded,” officials at Ellis Island required immigrants to put together this seemingly simple jigsaw puzzle. Stephen Lewis. For all of the ...