Next month, it will reopen as a museum honoring the history of Cuban exiles with immersive, state-of-the-art exhibits that explore the meaning of migration, freedom and homeland. Ellis Island of the ...

Long before mass migration, Italians lived and worked in colonial America as traders, soldiers, and missionaries ...

15-year-old Annie Moore became the first migrant of the more than 12 million who will pass through Ellis Island. In 62 years of operation, the small island near the Statue of Liberty welcomed millions ...

In August 1938, William Ellis (1892-1962), the chairman of the Kauai Board of Supervisors, proposed to fellow board members Yutaka Hamamoto, Manuel Aguiar, Noboru Miyake and George Watase that two ...

Part of JR’s ‘Unframed — Ellis Island’ installation (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) One of New York City’s most haunting ruins has direct views of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and ...

They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago. Yet ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island in New York Harbor officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. Opening on January 1, 1892, the island welcomed more ...

Over 150 years ago on Jan. 26, 1870, Virginia was readmitted into the Union after the Civil War and regained Congressional representation. Over 60 years ago on Jan. 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the ...

Ellis Island closed as an immigration station and detention center. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived by boat in the United State of America. Ellis Island was the largest ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The United States immigration station on Ellis Island closed on Nov. 12, 1954. Since opening in 1892, the station had processed almost 12 million immigrants. The number of ...