The first Greeks who arrived in the New World had to go through Ellis Island, which became the designated immigration station ...

In the 1800s, it was believed that corners harbored disease. Thus, all the hallways of the Ellis Island hospital are rounded.

surpassing the previous high of 14.8 percent in 1890 — just two years before Ellis Island opened to deal with the influx of immigrants, according to the CBO and US Census Bureau. The exact size ...

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 ...

Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed at Ellis Island's immigration station from ... to 2% of each nationality's representation in the 1890 census. That law sought to specifically restrict ...

The aftermath of explosions on nearby Black Tom Island. Courtesy of Jersey City Past and Present. The first immigration station at Ellis Island opened in 1892. In that first year, the new ...

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 ...

The Feature Profile Test, in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, was administered to immigrants at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. Those who failed to ...

"I am one of the nearly 40% of all U.S. citizens who can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis ... on the island, showing her son Theo having the best time as he explored the National Immigration ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

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 ...