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

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 ...

Scholar Kathryn Vaggalis has untangled the complex racial identity of Greek immigrants to America in her research of Greek "picture brides." ...

Immigration is central to America's identity — and for most of us, to our family histories. As we turn away from that legacy, ...

I am a third-generation American citizen. My grandfather was born here, to immigrant parents who came from Alcamo, Sicily to the United States, looking for a better life. As an Italian-American and a ...

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working very closely with one of our columnists, Carlos Lozada, on a series of ...

2 weeks ago Platkin said he remembers going to Ellis Island as a child, visiting the location where his grandparents arrived decades ago, and he never imagined a few generations later, he would be ...

You can learn more about the island’s role as the West Coast’s Ellis Island with a visit to the Immigration Station ... cost $18 for adults and $12 for children ages 5 to 12.

Traveling in steerage he arrived at Ellis Island ... of Italian immigrants James Mann and Jennie Montermarano. Josephine was born in 1899, she was the fifth of their six children and apparently ...

By Tuesday, just a day after Trump swore his oath of office in the hallowed halls of Congress, the immigration processing ... poorly run Ellis Island. Maybe Biden and his band of progressive ...

From the days of Ellis Island to today’s debates ... the same education level. Similarly, immigrants are more likely to be married and living with children — an indicator often associated ...

“My grandparents came through Ellis Island,” he said. Von Behren also said immigration is putting ... and has three children now studying the trades in hopes of joining the ranks of our ...