Richard Bernstein tackles difficult topics in his short study of an extraordinary entertainer, Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson in ...

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Alexandra Dutton go through a traumatic experience, but she keeps her dignity with two powerful quotes. Here's what they ...

Alexandra makes it through (after proving she can read and verbally emasculate a corrupt official), but she still has to get ...

The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in ...

Schlaepfer's character is sexually assaulted when she reaches Ellis Island, in hopes of reuniting with her American husband ...

Following the cliff-hanger involving the Dutton family matriarch (Helen Mirren) and another killer animal last week, we have ...

Alexandra, the British aristocrat turned Mrs. Spencer Dutton, experiences the American immigration system at its meanest in a ...

Watchorn, former commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island, gave the Lincoln Memorial Shrine to Redlands in 1932.

Signs are that Trump is going to have something to say on immigration as VP Vance is set to appear on the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday. At minimum, Trump will take a victory lap as numbers come ...

Ellis was born on October 9, 1926, in Rhyl, Wales. Her father, a cellist, made a good living playing for the silent movies in Wales. In the early 1920s he worked on ocean liners and became quite ...