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 ...

Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island's immigration station from its opening in 1892 to 1954, when it closed. But the number of immigrants dropped significantly by 1924 ...

European immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, ca. 1920, some of the last to enter after ... have a prolific tradition of firmly preserving Polish culture and language whether or not they have had to ...

According to data collected in 2009 by the United States Census Bureau, there are more than 10 million Poles and people of Polish origin living ... s book Wyspa Klucz (The Key Island), in which she ...

When the flood of immigrants came to Ellis Island in the 1900s (the historical ... The Irish were portrayed as monkey-like, and the Polish were thought to be too stupid to speak English.

“The Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation lauds the efforts of the Ellis Island Initiative to shift the narrative surrounding immigration in New York state,” Sparrow Tobin, president of the ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

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 ...

If Donald Trump’s theory of “bad genes” were to prevail, it would wipe out American sports greatness wholesale. There go all ...

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 ...