Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or ...

Victor Davis Hanson contrasts Ellis Island’s orderly, legal immigration with today’s border crisis, arguing that Biden’s ...

Ellis Island's successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes.

All were registered, documented and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...

Ellis Island’s successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes.

GALVESTON, Texas – More than a century ago, this busy Gulf Coast port and longtime vacation destination 50 miles southeast of ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. In ...

Today, the few remaining descendants of Jewish immigrants from that time period still living on the island are determined to ...

Millions of people passed through Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital between 1901 and 1924. A team of doctors performed tests to verify whether those entering the United States had any kind of contagious ...

Nov. 12, 1954, marked the day Ellis Island, the famous gateway to the U.S. in New York Harbor, closed its doors for good.

The drawing, by the architect Raniero Corbelletti, is one of several prints in The New York Times’s archives of unrealized ...