On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

When history professor Mark Washburne wanted to learn about his grandmother’s arrival in the United States as an infant, he ...

The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...