Today in History for Dec. 31: In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted the British East India Co. a monopoly on all trade to the East Indies. In 1687, the first shipload of emigrating Huguenots (French ...

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 ...

A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the statue can be admired from several different vantage points around Manhattan, including ...

(AP Photo) On New Year’s Day in 1892, the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York formally opened, processing nearly 700 immigrants on its first day. Five facts about Ellis Island ...

There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you ... The classic image of immigrants spotting the Statue of Liberty from a ship pulling into New York Harbor ...

Grant Ellis is just weeks away from the premiere of his season of “The Bachelor.” Ellis, a 31-year-old day trader and former professional basketball player, was named the next lead of the long ...

It was agreed that a relative would meet him at New York’s Ellis Island, which was the centralized entry point for many immigrants. Mother said that for some unknown reason, the relative who ...

For more than 60 years, from 1892 to 1954, the immigration station at Ellis Island processed millions of immigrants who ...

17.1 x 24.1 cm. (6.7 x 9.5 in.) ...