Visitors to the San Diego Museum of Art in California can take a selfie and, using augmented reality, incorporate facial features of subjects hanging on the wall. They can see what they look like with ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which sustained severe damage to its infrastructure from the surging waters of Superstorm Sandy, is not expected to re-open to the public this year ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries reopened to visitors Monday for the first time since Superstorm ...

An exhibit honoring the risks European diplomats undertook to save thousands of Jews escaping the Holocaust will be on display starting today at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Hundreds of ...

Between 1892 and 1954, immigrants arriving on the shores of the United States passed below the towering face of Lady Liberty before docking at Ellis Island. A processing center for more than 12 ...

The 29-building hospital complex on the lesser-traveled south side of Ellis Island is a unique attraction in New York City. While most visitors head straight for the immigration museum, on the other ...

With the weather warming up, it’s time for genealogy trips. My favorite is a visit to New York City, where the first member of my mother’s paternal line to come to Wyoming Valley lived after his Civil ...

I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million colonists and enslaved people lived in what would eventually become the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries reopened to visitors Monday for the first time since Superstorm ...