History surrounds San Francisco. Sometimes you have to venture into the bay for more discovery. Angel Island is called the ...

Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it Brian D. Scanlan ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 200 artefacts telling stories of early 20th century immigrants to the United States will be returned to New York's Ellis Island immigration museum on Thursday following ...

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 ...