A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

News; Street View of Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island will be available on Google Maps, report says. Published: ; Jul. 25, 2014, 3:34 p.m.

When composer Peter Boyer was working on “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a stirring ode to our country’s immigrants, 9/11 happened.

In 1998, 160 years after the squabbling began, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that 90 percent of Ellis Island should indeed belong to New Jersey, which triumphantly raised its state flag over the island.

America’s foreign born population now makes up a record 15.2% of the US, surpassing the previous high of 14.8 percent in 1890 — just two years before Ellis Island opened to deal with the ...

During World War II, when the United States accepted only 250,000 refugees from Nazism, the island became an internment camp for 6,000 Germans, Japanese, and Italians.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Annie Moore was the first immigrant who walked through the doors when Ellis Island opened more than 130 years ago. These days, there are statues of her in Ireland and at the historic US site. Her ...

When Salvatore Pugliese disembarked the S.S. America at Ellis Island after two weeks at sea, an immigration officer grilled the 17-year-old tailor.

The US has seen its largest surge in immigration in its history under the Biden Administration — surpassing the Ellis Island-era migration boom that changed the face of the nation forever ...