My grandmother got on a boat to America alone at 16 because she was the smartest person in her village. That’s not bragging. That’s what happened. Her small town in Ukraine administered an ...

The final voyage of the Yankee Ferry is turning into an elegy. The storied 1907 vessel — the last surviving Ellis Island ferryboat — is back on the market for $1.25 million after the death earlier ...

PORTAGE, Mich., Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ellis Island Honors Society (EIHS) has announced that Charles Zhang and Lynn Chen-Zhang of Zhang Financial have been selected as recipients of the ...

The Battle Creek Symphony will explore the American immigrant experience with its upcoming concert, "American Dream." The performance, set for April 11 at W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, will feature "Ellis ...

Ellis Island has temporarily moved karaoke outside to the stage in The Front Yard while the off-Strip casino gives its long-running Karaoke Bar a facelift as part of the third and final phase of a $35 ...

Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it Brian D. Scanlan ...

An image spreading across Facebook claims Donald Trump was recognized decades before his presidency alongside civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali for "contributing to the conditions of ...

Approach the gateway to the American Dream with this poignant drone journey over Ellis Island in New York Harbor. The flight begins with a sweeping view of the majestic National Museum of Immigration, ...

Sagittarius, I predict that you will invigorate your instinctual vitality as you clear emotional sediment and ground your energy in the earth’s rich rhythms. Kick off the biggest football night of the ...

LAS VEGAS — I got a little lost on my way to finding Las Vegas’ off-menu $9.99 steak dinner. It was the week Formula 1 was in town, and the streets around the Strip were a maze of dead ends and ...

Part of JR’s ‘Unframed — Ellis Island’ installation (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) One of New York City’s most haunting ruins has direct views of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented and ...