Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...
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 ...
Many southern Italians who dreamed of a better life were leaving for America. One of those individuals was 17-year-old Pete Trozera. When he arrived alone at Ellis Island in New York, he had $9 in his ...
The method arrived in Chicago with Italian immigrants during the mid-1800s. By 1920, over 4 million people had arrived at ...
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 ...
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 ...