Firstrust Bank Executive Chairman and Owner Richard J. Green was recently honored as a recipient of a 2025 Ellis Island Medal ...

A man rides past a gibbet on horseback Lithograph by W. Clerk. Courtesy of The Wellcome Collection. Under English colonial rule, Ellis Island — though it was not called that at the time ...

Michelle Ritz went to Ellis Island on Monday, carrying a name from the past. It was her grandfather’s — a man named Nader, who journeyed to America from Syria in the early 1900s, then changed ...

as we celebrate our shared history and the contributions of immigrants past and present, let us also commit to creating a better future", said Ellis Island Honors Society Chairman Nasser J.

But the Ellis Island narrative is misleading ... while immigrants arrive better prepared than in the past, they don’t assimilate as quickly once here. There are two policy paths to encourage ...

The surge outpaced the historical records set in the late 1800s that led to the opening of Ellis Island in New York. Getty Images “For the past four years, we’ve been hearing from the ...

“We are thrilled to include Miky Lee as one of this year’s prestigious honorees,” the Ellis Island Honors Society said in announcing Lee’s selection. “Over the past three ...

An occasional red-tailed hawk circled the sky as we cycled past stands of California poppies ... New York City's Ellis Island. Between 1910 and 1940, the facility processed up to one million ...