A fight between the Dakota and Algonquin Native American tribes. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Before the European colonists came to America, Algonquin-speaking Native ...
An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island, 1925. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the easiest ways to get marked for deportation at Ellis Island was ...
On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous ...
Teenaged filmmakers row out to Ellis Island in 1974, then return 50 years later. As teenagers in 1974 Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel rowed out to explore the ruins of Ellis Island. They made a film, ...
Between 1892 and 1954, 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 ...
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