Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

As immigration decreased, Ellis Island's role began to change. During World War Two, some 7,000 German, Italian and Japanese nationals suspected of being enemy aliens were interred there.

Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, an immigrant priest who served other migrants in Iowa, teaches us to look toward rural America, its old ...

In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Two weeks before Eugene Mentz arrived in Avigliano, Italy in September, he played the organ for the Italian language Mass at ...

It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the ...

Amid the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the presidential election, experts warn the humanity of migrants is being ignored.