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 ...

Unlike Ellis Island, however, its message was one of discriminatory ... India and the Philippines. Hopeful Chinese immigrants, legitimate or not, were held at Angel Island for lengthy periods of time ...

Immigration is central to America's identity — and for most of us, to our family histories. As we turn away from that legacy, ...

Between its opening in 1892 and closing in 1954, Ellis Island saw many variations of ... It wasn't an event to feed new immigrants their beloved foods but to introduce them to what Americans ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

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 ...