After losing their company, the artist couple behind the luxury pottery brand Mackenzie-Childs has lived for the past 25 ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

Atlas Obscura recently joined us for a tour of the now abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island, and sent us a video inside the facility. We offer tours of the ...

Explore the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital complex, once the standard for United States medical care and later transformed into a US Coast Guard base. It has been left to decay for nearly 60 years.

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also an island ...

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Visual artist JR joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and discusses his short film ''Ellis' that chronicles the early years of Ellis Island through the experiences of one immigrant. Photo: JR ...

Between 1892 and 1924, more than 12 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) bid farewell to their hometowns in search of better opportunities in the land of the free. Traveling with little more than a ...

A version of this story was originally published in 2019. When history professor Mark Washburne wanted to learn about his grandmother’s arrival in the United States as an infant, he went to Ellis ...

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 ...