The famous "Gateway to America" opened more than 130 years ago on New Year's Day. What was it like for the more than 12 ...

From 1892 immigrants were taken to Ellis Island in New York to be 'processed'. They received a medical inspection and if they failed they were sent back to where they came from. For these ...

Through their efforts, and those of the National Park Service, the history of all thirty-three buildings that make up Ellis Island -- and that of the humanity that was processed, given medical ...