Rachel Cockerell's "Melting Point" touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from ...

In the 1800s, it was believed that corners harbored disease. Thus, all the hallways of the Ellis Island hospital are rounded.

The first Greeks who arrived in the New World had to go through Ellis Island, which became the designated immigration station ...

In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories.

Martin Luther King Jr. has a famous quote in reference to the nearly 400-year-long genocide of Native Americans from ...

Barack Obama came onstage as apotheosis, the multiracial, multicultural evolution of what Ellis Island promised to the Nation of Immigrants long ago. But in the evolving financial shambles of the ...

How can a country that welcomed 12 million immigrants through Ellis Island be so cruel to today’s newcomers? Already President Trump’s determination to deport millions has led to nearly 23,000 ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Dozens of immigrants became U.S. citizens Monday morning right here in the Quad Cities. The Central District of Illinois swore in 90 immigrants from 27 countries. The most ...