Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally acknowledged that Joe Biden was the “President-elect of the United States of America. He also warned GOP senators to stop contesting the election. Meanwhile, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not said a...
Ellis Island
Ellis Island vs. the Mexican Border
Megan Wolff is a historian and administrator at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She was also an Ellis Island tour guide. Over at CNN, she compares the immigrant experience at Ellis...
Ellis Island Collections Moved in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Ellis Island took a pretty significant hit from Hurricane Sandy in October. The island is currently closed to the public. The collections survived, but they have been moved to federal warehouses in Lanham, MD and Harper’s Ferry, WV. in order...