A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

From German street food to an American symbol, the hot dog’s rise is a story of immigration, innovation and affordability. As ...

That vision of a nation united in diversity is on full display at the Grace Museum in downtown Abilene, showcasing the story and impact of U.S. immigrants from the bygone days of entry at Ellis Island ...

A participant holds a sign during a Jan. 25, 2025, interfaith rally in support of immigrants at Love Park in downtown Philadelphia. A federal judge on April 11 declined to block the Trump ...

Washington Avenue Immigration Station opened 19 years before Ellis Island, welcoming more than one million immigrants from Europe into the United States. Its history, however, became somewhat ...

Then we went to Ellis Island to learn how people, for more than 100 years, ventured across the ocean in their desire to immigrate to the United States. It was named after Samuel Ellis, a Welsh ...

Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, its historic ownership retains its mystery - with a Welsh twist.

The surge in immigrants added 0.6% to the population per year during the period — similar to the migration that happened during the Ellis Island era of the 1850s.

The previous record came during the 1800s, when millions of Europeans came to the U.S., traveling through places like Ellis Island. The new finding allegedly found that more than half of today's ...

The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a New York Times analysis of ...