more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known. But Ellis was also a place ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

Max Miller of Tasting History prepared a typical meal of what European immigrants at the turn of the 20th Century would eat ...

Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island's immigration station from its opening in 1892 to 1954, when it closed. But the number of immigrants dropped significantly by 1924 ...

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

In January of 1892, the government opened a special building on Ellis Island to handle the massive numbers of new arrivals to the United States. Throughout the early 1800s, immigration rose and ...

Since 1990, the site has been home to the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration.Now, after more than three decades, the museum is getting a makeover. The $100 million project, which was ...