Two hundred and fifty years of American history have produced this enduring truth: Every generation has debated immigration — ...

How did Federal Hill become Rhode Island’s Little Italy? From immigrant bakers and butchers to iconic restaurants, the answer ...

Tomorrow, July 4, is the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, a land that bears the footprints of invaders and indigenous peoples, of slaves in chains and immigrants who came from yonder ...

By America's 100th birthday, people traveled by steamboat and buggy, communicated via telegrams, and the Gilded Age was afoot ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...

There is something a little magic about seeing a well-known landmark for the first time. It can feel like an accomplishment, ...

Reader Stanley McKie argues the current administration’s xenophobia holds America back.

The national monument to immigration at Ellis Island is in the latter part of a $117 million makeover as the U.S. marks its ...

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, relatives of the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island reflected on the ...

A history of immigration shows how successive waves of arrivals have reshaped the economy, identity and politics of the ...

There are the families of Yemeni immigrants hired by Ford Motor Company to build cars in Detroit, and the Vietnamese refugees ...

The Great Depression always seems to play out to us in black and white. Images are seared in our collective history — from ...