ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island. In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an ...
Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...
Throughout the hospital complex, life-sized historic photographs of Ellis Island immigrants are pasted on the walls, windows, floors, and furniture. These installations, part of the exhibition ...
The museum is also expanding its arrival records database by ... At its peak, Ellis Island processed around 5,000 immigrants ...
Pictured is Ellis Island, New York in 1920 ... The result has been the largest wave of immigration ever, with arrival of more than 40 million legal immigrants, plus millions more illegal immigrants.
In drawing out a seemingly bizarre historical immigrant experience, Lebanese artist Joyce Joumaa reminds us how little has ...
The Libertarian candidate proposes that the U.S. "return to an Ellis Island style of processing immigrants," which ... of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the policy enacted ...
The registry room at New York's Ellis Island in 1924, the year Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act to severely restrict immigration. (AP) Albert Johnson and David Reed were not on the list of ...
Eisgruber has received the 2024 Ellis Island Medal of Honor ... federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Eisgruber was a founding member of The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher ...
About 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island until it was shuttered 70 years ago in 1954. Among them were Isaac Asimov, Josephine Baker, Abe Beame, Irving Berlin, Frank Capra ...