The massive project to modernize the historic immigration museum comes as political tensions over immigration are rising.

OUSTS AID SOCIETIES FROM ELLIS ISLAND; Agents of Polish and Swedish Immigrants' Homes Barred by Commissioner Williams. RUN FOR PRIVATE GAIN" Immigrants Overcharged in Money Exchange, He Says and ...

Henry Roth was one of 3 million Jewish immigrants processed at Ellis Island, and the opening page of his novel “Call It Sleep” itemizes the human panoply thronging its corridors during its ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

When composer Peter Boyer was working on “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a stirring ode to our country’s immigrants, 9/11 happened.

It was 1920, and the young Polish boy was on a ship with his family, headed to Ellis Island and a new life in America. “It was a great sight. I didn’t know what it meant.

Inspectors examined the eyes of immigrants at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, but did they change their names? Archives Center at American History 0143.VDF 27016/NMAH One hundred twenty-five ...

About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac ...

Overall, today’s immigrants speak English at much higher rates than those at Ellis Island or even those in the 1980s and 1990s. Most report speaking English “very well” or only English.

This 1924 file photo shows the registry room at Ellis Island in New York harbor, a gateway to America for millions of immigrants. Here we are a century later, still fighting over migrants and the ...

It was Polish immigrants who stocked this city on the outskirts of Detroit a century ago. ... Michigan's Ellis Island, as Trump takes power. Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press.

About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac Asimov, Abe Beame, Irving Berlin, Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and ...