Before the Civil War America’s open door welcomed large waves of Irish and German immigration and then millions from Italy ...

Illegal immigration and all that it entails are not the problem. It is only a symptom. Of course, over the long term it is impossible to stop what large groups of people feel compelled to do for ...

World Refugee Day is an international observance honoring the resilience, courage and self-determination of those who have ...

That scammer was George C. Parker. The son of Irish immigrants, he was born in New York City on March 16th, 1860. The world ...

Seaford Town, founded by German settlers in 1835, remains one of Jamaica's most unique and enduring cross cultural ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

The Roosevelt Hotel became a refuge for thousands of migrants traveling to New York City from the border. Officials shuttered ...

The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is officially recognized by both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with recipients entered into the Congressional Record. DeWeese was recently honored at a ...

But some people say someone else deserves the credit: a German immigrant named Gustave Whitehead. He supposedly flew his flying machine two years before the Wright Brothers in Fairfield, Connecticut.

I remember going to Ellis Island decades ago, seeing some of the editorial cartoons from 100 years ago, and thinking they felt eerily like what some politicians and pundits were saying in modern ...