Long before Leah Boustan was a professor of economics at Princeton, she was a Princeton undergraduate putting the final touches on her senior thesis. Working alongside her adviser, longtime professor ...

(How Ellis Island shepherded millions of immigrants into America.) A woman and her children are given a medical exam in this 1907 photograph. Only immigrants who had traveled in the often ...

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They were then put on a ferry to Ellis Island where their future would be decided. When they arrived at the island and entered the main building, women and children were separated into one line ...