I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million colonists and enslaved people lived in what would eventually become the ...

An exhibit honoring the risks European diplomats undertook to save thousands of Jews escaping the Holocaust will be on display starting today at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Hundreds of ...

When we genealogists think of immigration through New York City, which was the gateway for millions of our American ancestors, we tend to envision the huge facility Ellis Island, now a museum and ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries reopened to visitors Monday for the first time since Superstorm ...

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled tourists yearning to buy tchotkes. Ellis Island, the initial destination of millions of immigrants, reopened to the public Monday for the first time since ...