We nearly lost Ellis Island. We can do more to preserve this national treasure
Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...
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Immigration and Deportation at Ellis Island
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 ...
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Commentary: A fading lamp beside the golden door
As we turn away from that legacy, who will we become? Immigrants wait on Ellis Island in New York City in this photograph taken around 1920. In the 1980s, I was the curator of a photography ...
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Ellis Island
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 ...
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The Open Door policy and immigration to 1928
From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...
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Immigration and Deportation at Ellis Island
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 ...