To the new arrivals at Ellis Island in the early 1900s, the thin bespectacled man waving them down seemed to be a part of the immigration process. They had spent weeks crossing the Atlantic Ocean in ...

The fragile lace shawl that has been in her family for four generations took on greater meaning as Patricia Bilby learned more about the experience her great-grandmother may have had when she arrived ...

Thursday, Nov. 12 marked the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Ellis Island immigration facility. From 1892 until the center’s closing in 1954, the small island in New York harbor served as the ...

During World War I, nativist sentiment increased and led many Americans began to believe those with ties to another country made them traitors to the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1917 established a ...