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 ...

There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger ... The classic image of immigrants spotting the Statue of Liberty from a ship pulling into New York Harbor is a part ...

The 12 million immigrants who arrived between ... His grandmother was a year old when she arrived at Ellis Island from ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience ... many of whom had already spent days and sometimes months on crowded, unsanitary ships to escape persecution ...

while millions of immigrants passed through Ellis Island and the South Street Seaport." The event will feature an international parade of tall ships, an international naval review attended by ...

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 ...