Nov. 12, 1954, marked the day Ellis Island, the famous gateway to the U.S. in New York Harbor, closed its doors for good.

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 ...

Nov. 14, 1950, a Southern Airways jet carrying the Marshall University football team crashed in the mountains of West ...

The Old Country. The action-adventure game left the United States for Sicily in order to create an origin story of sorts — not one for any of its characters, but for the concept of Italian organized ...