Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University.

Program director Everett McCorvey, Kentucky students explore stories of Ellis Island for nation’s 250th anniversary.

Approach the gateway to the American Dream with this poignant drone journey over Ellis Island in New York Harbor. The flight begins with a sweeping view of the majestic National Museum of Immigration, ...

This is a sweeping history of how people arrived in America, why they came, and how the country repeatedly rewrote the rules of belonging. It’s a snapshot of a nation shaped by opportunity and ...

13-year-old Ezekiel Pujol, left, and 15-year-old Alannah Redmond, of Paloma Irish Dance School play fiddle for the audience ...

I held my bear-suit-clad two-month-old high above my head as a tired photo technician labored to take a valid passport photo. (“No smiling,” he told me. “No crying, look straight ahead.”) The precious ...

As the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year, it is important not only to understand where we are and what brought us here, but also to ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, so we put it to the test.

At its heart, this story illustrates all that is lost when bureaucratic decisions overlook immigrant histories embedded in a ...

My grandma's uncle was arrested and executed with other leaders from Sivas, Armenia. Her cousin was abducted and enslaved.

Aug. 3, 2019, is the day Patrick Crusius killed 23 people and injured 22 more; it's also the day El Paso native Jazmine Ulloa, a then political reporter for the Boston Globe, came back home for what ...

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