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A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

Atlas Obscura recently joined us for a tour of the now abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island, and sent us a video inside the facility. We offer tours of the ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also an island ...

This limited-run tour, with available dates from October through December, provides a rare opportunity to see a fading masterpiece. JR’s wheat-pasted photographs were not meant to be permanent. There ...

Introduction -- Guarding the Golden Gate: the life and business of the immigration station -- "One hundred kinds of oppressive laws": Chinese immigrants in the shadow of exclusion -- "Agony, anguish, ...

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 ...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, NY — West Side School recently brought history to life for its fourth grade students during its much-anticipated annual event, Ellis Island Day, the Cold Spring Harbor School ...