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 ...

While ELLIS Prep’s principal celebrated the accomplishments of graduates, she also paused to take stock of the impact of ...

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

It was Polish immigrants who stocked this city on the outskirts of Detroit a century ... Michigan's Ellis Island, ... The community of Hamtramck was founded by German and French settlers in 1798.

As immigration decreased, Ellis Island's role began to change. During World War Two, some 7,000 German, Italian and Japanese nationals suspected of being enemy aliens were interred there.

This former quarantine and military station once processed as many as one million immigrants. Now, the picturesque island is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best urban getaways.

On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island immigration station in New York Harbor opened its doors and welcomed its first immigrant, ... a young German-American who worked at the Fulton Fish Market.

California’s ‘Ellis Island’ was designed to keep Asian immigrants out. The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and ...

Before the immigration station at Ellis Island was constructed, new arrivals to New York first passed through an Emigrant Depot at Castle Clinton.Between 1855 and 1890, more than 8 million people ...