Today more than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. With the attempted sale a fiasco ...

Julia Schlaepfer had just one day to tear her 1923 character down ... only to learn that she will have to be processed through Ellis Island alongside those also immigrating to America.

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

Before the European colonists came to America, Algonquin-speaking Native American tribes used Ellis Island as a home base to harvest food. The island contained large oyster beds and was also a ...

Ivanka's post showed herself and her family enjoying their day on the island ... U.S. citizens who can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty stand ...

only to encounter more horrors while passing through Ellis Island. Here, Schlaepfer looks back at the filming of the episode titled “Wrap Thee In Terror” and talks about what it’s like to ...

if you depart for Liberty Island any later than 2 p.m., you will not have enough time to see both Liberty and Ellis islands; you’ll have to pick just one. To make the most of your day ...

It feels so important to me to tell this story. Every day on set, I’d walk in and see all these extras in their costumes with their Ellis Island tags, and it felt so real and so horrifying.