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

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

A well-worn joke in American Jewish culture goes like this. A Jewish immigrant landed at Ellis Island in New York. The procedures were confusing, and he was overwhelmed by the commotion.

But, it wasn’t merely a New York thing. Philadelphia’s immigration station opened 19 years before Ellis Island’s, yet it wasn’t as high-profile as the one in the Big Apple. Leaving a ...

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 ...

How can a country that welcomed 12 million immigrants through Ellis Island be so cruel to today’s newcomers? Already President Trump’s determination to deport millions has led to nearly 23,000 ...

The Inspection Room at Ellis Island in New York circa 1910 ... the latest chapter of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, a project that officials have said will focus on those ...

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 and the Statue of Liberty stand as ... showing her son Theo having the best time as he explored the National Immigration Museum, which documents a significant part of immigrant ...