There was a time when the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island welcomed the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to ...

While not as famous as Ellis Island, Washington Avenue Immigration Station in Philadelphia used to be a place where ...

Alexandra makes it through (after proving she can read and verbally emasculate a corrupt official), but she still has to get ...

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 ...

Current estimates put the figure of actual immigrants who passed through the Station at about 300,000. Comparatively, Ellis Island received about 12 million throughout the time of its operation. Of ...

Between 1904 and 1926, the American photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) photographed countless newcomers at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. While there, he trained his ...

particularly highlighting the stories of U.S. immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island in the 1900s. The performance, titled Ellis Island, will not only feature the orchestra but also ...

Schlaepfer's character is sexually assaulted when she reaches Ellis Island, in hopes of reuniting with her American husband (played by Brandon Sklenar): "No one should have to go through what she goes ...

Ellis Island straddles New York ... ancestor who entered the U.S. via this station. Though considered a gateway to the American dream, long lines and the threat of detainment and deportation tested ...

The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration offers a chance to learn ... Ellis Island Tour at Battery Park are the Bowling Green station and the Whitehall Street station.

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 ...