Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor. Underwood & Underwood. Courtesy Library of Congress. Arrival and Departure In 1991, Historic Preservation magazine ...

About 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. That's what made the U.S. so prosperous.

Between its opening in 1892 and closing in 1954, Ellis Island saw many variations of ... It wasn't an event to feed new immigrants their beloved foods but to introduce them to what Americans ...

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And thanks to a project began more than 20 years ago, Americans can trace their ancestors’ arrival in America, thanks to a new Ellis Island immigrants database compiled by volunteers from The ...

As we turn away from that legacy, who will we become? Immigrants wait on Ellis Island in New York City in this photograph taken around 1920. In the 1980s, I was the curator of a photography ...

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 ...

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 ...

Immigrants just arrived, awaiting examination, Ellis Island, New York harbor. Underwood & Underwood. Courtesy Library of Congress. Arrival and Departure In 1991, Historic Preservation magazine ...

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York, 1907 - Shorpy.com; Immigrant Children, Ellis Island, 1908, New York - Shorpy.com; PAT BENIC/UPI/Newscom; Carlos A. Moreno/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom ...