A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

An Irish teenager named Annie Moore was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island when it opened in 1892. Now her cousin is telling her story onstage, hoping to share a powerful message with a ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. On New Year’s Day 1892, a seventeen-year-old girl named Annie Moore stepped onto Ellis Island and into a new life in America. The teen and her two ...

Just beyond the steel and concrete canyons of downtown Manhattan sits Ellis Island. Its Great Hall is silent now, but nearly seventy years after it closed its doors, it still speaks of the ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

That’s the real legacy of Ellis Island — one worth reclaiming today. Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University.

The Ellis Island Medals of Honor have been awarded annually since 1986 to Americans, both U.S.-born and naturalized, who represent and contribute to the rich mosaic that is our great nation.

Annie Moore was the first immigrant who walked through the doors when Ellis Island opened more than 130 years ago. These days, there are statues of her in Ireland and at the historic US site. Her ...

NEW YORK, May 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ellis Island Honors Society (EIHS) awarded the 2025 Annual Ellis Island Medals of Honor, to 80 recipients including: Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden ...

The Ellis Island Medals of Honor have been awarded annually since 1986 to Americans, both U.S.-born and naturalized, who represent and contribute to the rich mosaic that is our great nation.