On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

At the end of the 19th century, Ellis Island immigration station in New York became known as the gateway to America. Between ...

Nov. 12, 1954, marked the day Ellis Island, the famous gateway to the U.S. in New York Harbor, closed its doors for good.

Since opening in 1892, the station had processed almost 12 million immigrants. The number of immigrants had fallen since anti-immigration laws were passed in the 1920s. During the second world war, ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

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The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...

Six people were arrested for allegedly running a massive drug ring that flooded Suffolk County with fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.

The United States immigration station on Ellis Island closed on Nov. 12, 1954. The Keynote Speaker, Mike Wooley, is a retired ...

In this programme, we’ll be taking a walk through two Little Italys, one in Argentina, the other in New York, and, as usual, we’ll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. But before that, I ...