The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous landmarks in the world — Ellis Island — for private commercial use.” The ...

These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the immigration station at New York's Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

The last immigrant to come through Ellis Island was Arne Peterssen, a 48-year-old merchant seaman from Narvik, Norway, and he did so in 1954. From the opening of the first Ellis Island Immigrant ...

But the Ellis Island narrative is misleading. While early 20th-century immigrants were poor by today’s standards, they were positively selected relative to their home countries — often better ...

The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there. A sweeping view of ...

On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed after admitting millions of immigrants from all around the world into the United States. Cork teen Annie Moore was the first person to go ...

NEW YORK - Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it's also where hundreds of thousands ...